Concentration camp Quote by Jennifer Senior

“Adolescents who never learn to control their consciousness grow up to be adults without a “discipline.” They lack the complex skills that will help…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The…

— Laurence Steinberg

If the youth has a good foundation, then I think they won't grow into the bad situations they get into.

— Ed Reed

We hear people all the time talk about how juvenile facilities are way worse than adult facilities when it comes to helping them to…

— Simone Missick

“No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out of the…

— Jean M. Twenge

“Complicating matters, adolescent brains are more susceptible to substance abuse and dependence than adult brains, because they’re making so many new synaptic connections and…

— Jennifer Senior

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them…

— Mary Pipher

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable,…

— Stephen Dobyns

“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend…

— Jean M. Twenge

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Youth is wasted on the young.

— George Bernard Shaw