- For many young teens their mind is not fully developed. They're not able to often empathise and understand where others' perspectives are coming from. - In particular with Social Media they aren't able to understand the motivation of a post and might take it at face value. ---- What’s hard about the tweens to the early teens is that kids are often still quite concrete in their thinking. Regardless of how intelligent they are, they’re not always able to stand back from ideas and consider them from a wide range of perspectives. That comes along later in adolescent development. Older teens, as a function of having more fully developed brains, are able to be more skeptical about what they’re exposed to online, to consider what might be the motivation for any given post, as opposed to taking it at face value, as a younger teen is neurologically inclined to do. - [Link](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-parent-of-a-teen-ager-is-an-emotional-garbage-collector)