Much is said on Veterans Day about the sacrifices of our men and women on the battlefield. This is exactly as it should be. We owe everything — our country, our freedoms, our security — to our brave men and women in uniform in past and present conflicts.
It’s like an old wound that some hack doctor keeps digging at. Just as it’s healing, he goes back in. As always, with dirty hands. He is told to keep them out, but he doesn’t listen and the wound never heals.
As parents, teachers and coaches have long known, teens think differently than adults. So, it comes as no surprise that a substantial and growing body of science confirms that although adolescents may demonstrate cognitive abilities similar to those of adults, they are less capable of mature judgment.