I know that the kids in the process sometimes drive us completely nucking futs, but this showed up in my newsfeed this afternoon, and it might help some of us understand how some of the recruits y'all follow might make some head-scratching decisions from time to time.

NERD ALERT:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/28/381622350/why-teens-are-impul...

Research into how the human brain develops helps explain. In a teenager, the frontal lobe of the brain, which controls decision-making, is built, but not fully insulated — so signals move slowly.