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Charlie Elizabeth Culverhouse

The biological reason teens don't listen to mums, says a study (and what you can do about it)

Mother giving her teenager daughter advice.

A new study has revealed that teenagers may not be completely to blame for the way they ignore their mums - it might actually be caused by a deeper, biological reason. 

All parents of teens have shouted it at least once, twice, a hundred times in their kids' teenagehood; "Are you even listening to me?." We know that the answer is probably, "No," and that only makes it all the more frustrating. But it might not actually be their fault that they're tuning you out. 

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