{"id":5899,"date":"2014-07-02T13:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2014-07-02T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T20:41:48","slug":"fascinating-article-cool-13-hint-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/fascinating-article-cool-13-hint-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Article about Being &#8216;Cool&#8217; at 13 (Hint: Not a Good Thing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/23\/cool-at-13-adrift-at-23\/?module=Search&amp;mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%5B%22RI%3A10%22%2C%22RI%3A16%22%5D\">article a<\/a>bout a\u00a0study that examined so-called cool kids as they entered their teenage years lost their way by the time they reached early adulthood. &#8216;Pseudomature&#8217; behavior that resulted in popularity and being labeled &#8216;cool&#8217; at age 13 was predictive of all sorts of problems at age 23.<\/p>\n<p>My takeaway is that the rush to adulthood among children, pushed by parents and popular culture, is misguided because they aren&#8217;t developmentally ready to \u00a0assume the role of adult yet. Many young people become stuck in adolescence and never fully mature.<\/p>\n<p>As the lead researcher stated,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cTo be truly mature as an early adolescent means you\u2019re able to be a good, loyal friend, supportive, hardworking and responsible&#8230;But that doesn\u2019t get a lot of airplay on Monday morning in a ninth-grade homeroom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Key takeaway: you don&#8217;t want your kids to be cool.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire study <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/cdev.12250\/full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Capture.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Capture-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating article about a\u00a0study that examined so-called cool kids as they entered their teenage years lost their way by the time they reached early adulthood. &#8216;Pseudomature&#8217; behavior that resulted in popularity and being labeled &#8216;cool&#8217; at age 13 was predictive of all sorts of problems at age 23. My takeaway is that the rush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1525],"tags":[808,809,810,41,812,813,595,45,814,314],"class_list":["post-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-adolescence","tag-alcohol","tag-child-development-maturity","tag-children","tag-drugs","tag-immaturity","tag-maturity","tag-parenting-2","tag-sex","tag-teenagers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}