Curiosity makes young people wonder, ask questions, find out, figure out, dare, experiment, and explore what is new, different, and unknown. But why do they need to understand so much?
While ignorance can feel frustrating and worrisome, knowledge can feel interesting and empowering. "The more I know, the more confident I feel."
Adolescence is driven by worldly curiosity. There is so much to experience and learn about older life: "Growing up is for knowing and trying more."
While the infant is curious about the new experience that birthing brings, and the young child is curious to discover what the surrounding world is like, the adolescent is curious to explore older life experiences and experiment with acting more grown up.
Maybe it used to be that parents could delay youthful curiosity: "Wait until you're older for us to talk with you about that." Those innocent days are long gone today because the curious young person has immediate access to that universal information resource, the internet.
The internet and the creation of the online world have changed parenting by supplanting them as a primary source for answering questions about life. Ask anything, and you will be told something–perhaps reliable, perhaps not. Even if........