Do you have a teenage son or daughter and he thinks she ignores him when he talks to her, by asking you to clean up the room or take out the trash? Yes, it does, but science has an explanation.
According to a study by Stanford University (California, USA), from the age of 13, neurological processes occur whereby the brain stops paying attention to the mother’s voice to focus on lesser-known voices. The children go from absolute admiration for their mother to leaving them in the background, as this chain has been able to verify with several collected testimonies.
Even the young people themselves recognize it. “I do listen to my parents… but I do it for the fifth time,” admits Hugo, one of the students at the Khalil Gibran bilingual school in Fuenlabrada (Madrid).
explains it daniel abramsClinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California and one of the authors of the article published in the Journal of Neuroscience: “When listening to their mother’s voice, in young children these parts of the brain show increased activity. For adolescents, these parts of the brain show increased activity with unfamiliar voices.” And while she explains it, she shows the MRIs that show that the same areas that at one age are activated by the mother’s voice, react to others with age. To those of strangers or those of her friends before those of her parents.
And it doesn’t depend on whether we do it right or wrong when it comes to raising them. “When an emotional situation occurs, we don’t look to our parents for approval, we look more at our friends“, explains the neuroscientist and anthropologist Mario Fernández.
Yes, there is also selective deafness, but the bottom line is that adolescence brings with it numerous physical and, above all, neurological changes that are perfectly normal and for which we are programmed. But they are stages, as Hugo reminds her mother, trying to reassure her: “When I get out of this stage, I’m very silly and very hesitant…”.
Source: Lasexta
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