Judge: 13-year-old girl gets lighter sentence if her ponytail gets cut off

[EFerrari]

146. Between letting kids practice bad behavior & shaming, there are a lot of measures that can be taken.

I wonder how old shaming is, that we seem so attached to it. Probably, prehistoric.

While I agree with you that teens tend to settle down, imo what we consider normal teenage behavior is a social construct that needs to be revisited. Teenagers all over the world don't suddenly become nearly exclusively concerned with only themselves and trample on everyone around them. At that age, a lot of kids begin to work to support the family, become active in their community and take lessons from elders on how to be a human being. (How did our culture get so lucky, lol?)

The other thing that's problematic about how we let teenagers raise themselves is those years are the high risk years for the onset of serious mental illness. Those years that kids are watched the least -- so, there's a higher chance of the family missing the warning signs until some catastrophe happens to the kid.