Devorah Heitner
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
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And to find community, but that the best friends we have aren't always the friends just with the shared interest.
They're the friends who really love us for who we are.
And those relationships can grow even as interests and self presentation and other things change.
And I think I think it's really important that our kids experience that.
So I probably lost the question.
Right.
Well, we know that kids are s are very reward sensitive and teens are very reward sensitive and that and that the newest brain research suggests that it's not that they can't predict consequences or that they're sort of dummies, like they can't see the, you know, possibilities of of what of harm that might come if they post certain things, for example.
Because they're actually very astute.
A lot of times they can tell you like in terms of sexing.
Kids will be like, Yes, I know sometimes, you know, naked images get passed around.
but I still did it because I'm really in love.
Like they can really identify that they know that that harm is possible, but they will still make the choice to do something that is risky because risk is activating.
And this is all really positive for adolescents because we want them to try the hard calculus course or learn to skateboard or ask someone out for the first time.
Like the all of the developmental things they need to do.
Are risky.
And so it makes sense that they're going to be primed for risk, that they're going to be focused a little bit more on the rewards of a risky choice than the downsides, even though intellectually they actually do get the downsides.
Again, they're they're no dummies, these kids.
And that's really important.
But extreme rhetoric is going to be very attractive to some kids and especially
The the worry I think we have for our differently wired kids is that extreme rhetoric may be really attractive to those who have been left out, to those who have not been included.
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