last ice age thank goodness for the handful of our ancestors who chose to break away from their doomed parents freezing to death in the ancestral canes they built rocks and set off across the ocean hoping to find a place with a warmer climate critically dismayed risk-taking the essential feature adolescence we shouldn't be a little adolescence we should be honoring it for what it really is the defining struggle the moment when the next generation challenges the status quo and pioneers new ways of thinking and being that ensure survival now just imagine if we actually gave adolescence the freedom to undertake that struck rather than force them to sit passively in class how about trusting that the earlier clan like learning now enables adolescence to spread their wings and work things out for themselves if that sounds terrifying it needn't be because if we allowed their natural curiosity to flourish in childhood they'll be bursting with the longing to learn and climb on scaled mountains at the mine and that's not scary that exhilarating this is the way we've evolved to be it's what makes us fulfilled well-adjusted human beings