The teenage brain

My favorite parenting book, Ted Tripp's "Shepherding a Child's Heart", describes teenagers as "half baked". Meaning that they have adult thought processes and can handle reasoning, but that process doesn't always come to completion as an adult's would/should.

I now have two favorite examples of this.

#1--Several years ago while having a conversation about something that had been written by an older pastor concerning modesty and lust my 16 year old son asked,

"What would a 70 year old man know about lust?"

#2--This one was added yesterday. Pulling into a parking spot my 14 year old son looked at the open handicapped spots and asked,

"Do they give everyone a pass for the handicapped parking when they turn 50?