teenager
"A teenager is like a tornado. We pick ideas, things, and people up into our brains, play with them, study them, then eventually, we drop them back down to earth and move on."
"Raising a teenager is like reaching the green in a golf game. It is whole new ball-game requiring different skills, more patience and greater concentration than you needed down the long fairway of middle childhood."
A teenager, as advocates and some scientists like to say, is like a car with a great accelerator but terrible brakes. As Larry Steinberg, a psychologist who studies teen behaviour at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has said, "With powerful impulses under poor control, the likely result is a crash".
"Becoming a teenager is like living in a sci-fi movie. You keep morphing into somebody else while emergencies are popping up all around you"
"Parents often tell me that having a teenager is like reliving their own childhood, accept this time they are in the driver's seat."
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