Teenagers can act very mature one minute and behave very childishly the next. why is that?

Question

Teenagers can act very mature one minute and behave very childishly the next. why is that?

Answer 1

i have no idea, but it's what i do LOL

Answer 2

I am 23 and all I can say is being a teenager was h**l for me.  I was moody, depressed and an all round B**ch.  It really has to do with hormones and pressure of school, friends and family.  Unfortunately most teenagers go through it and its painful, for everyone involved.

Answer 3

cause we can!

Answer 4

teenagers have moodswings, its like a part of puberty i guess.. i shoudl pay attention in health class more

Answer 5

Hormones, where we currently are in live being stuck between a child and an adult. Also, every age acts like a child sometimes.

Answer 6

That's because they are on the transition from child to adult and they are not quite there yet.

Answer 7

thats why they r teenagers

Answer 8

well teens are going through so many changes now and  cant always be conscious of our actions.

Answer 9

Have you ever taken a look at some adults they act childish as well but going back to teenagers its because of puberty  

Answer 10

The reason that teenagers act the way they do now a days is because they are spoiled rotten and they take everything for granted. Parents now a days try to give their children what they didn't have growing up and teenagers are not learning how to earn privileges.They have things handed to them and they are not expected to do anything to earn those privileges. so when they don't get what they want or they get into some kind of trouble they act childish and expect the parents to bail them out or give them whatever they are throwing the fit for. Our 4 year old acts more mature when you tell him no then our 15 year old does.  

Answer 11

Because they are halfway between a child and an adult

Answer 12

bi-polar.

Answer 13

myself is a teenager and i have noticed some adults does do that sometimes..

(not LYING)  

Answer 14

That'sis because of their hormones.I mean,every teen behaves like that because his/her hormones.So that is it.

HORMONES!:D!!

Answer 15

They are trying to make a difficult transition in a world that does not reward them for success, but does punish them for failure.

Fiscal responsibility does not get them access to their own bank account. Being able to hold a job does not guarantee they can keep their money. Pursuing education and self-improvement (I specifically do not say schooling - one has nothing to do with the other) does not allow them to move beyond their parents rule.

But every time one teenager commits a crime, drives drunk, makes headlines for something stupid, all teenagers are blamed for it, looked askance at, as though every one of them were just a ticking time-bomb of stupid waiting to kill everyone in arm's reach.

It's not about shoveling more "responsibility" (which usually translates more as service, burdens, and work) onto teenagers in order to make them "earn" privileges (and earn them from whom, exactly? are adults really that much better? look around you). It's about letting them be responsible in a real way, and actually taking that seriously. If a man of sixteen holds down a job and buys a used car with his own money, pays the insurance, registration, and gas on it, he certainly does not need to ask permission to drive it! If a girl of 13 aces every class effortlessly and reads Thomas Payne essays for fun (I know such a one personally!) why should she be burdened with three more years of government-funded indoctrination factory education? Let her put her knowledge to better use!

There is, in short, no reason to grow up. Until enough seconds have passed for society to recognize you as adult, there is no incentive to live up to better expectations, because there's no profit in it. Your parents tossing you a bone, hassling you a little bit less about your friends and actually doing something other than school for eight seconds a week really isn't enough to encourage people to strive for anything.

It's the same reason you adults who work in a gopher farm of cubicles do the minimum required to get paid and spend the rest of your work day looking at p**n. Why shouldn't you? Being the best gopher doesn't get you a raise, the promotion goes to another gopher who spent just as much time slacking as you did but laughed at the boss's corny jokes, and in this time of recession gods preserve the gopher who looks out of his hole one time too many!

The problems are the same. The people are the same. Time to stop seeing 15 as equivalent to 5.

Answer 16

I am 17. Currently in the child to adult transition and I am happy to tell you that, between hormones, school stress and boys/girls issues, our lives are a mess. We feel together one moment, and then lost the next. We can love and hate something at the same time. Want to do something so badly then decided we're to lazy to have a shower. We like to think we know everything and do not need any advise but when we feel as if we're being compromised we act childish to hide our insecurites. Ill give you an example, I give advise to my family, friends etc about how to control their lives, how to manage their time and so on. However when someone is giving me advise, I completely shut down and assume their wrong without even listening. Its a strange world we 'teens' live in but hey, everyone goes through it!

Hope I helped!