“They [adolescents] now seem to love luxury, they have bad manners and contempt for authority, they show disrespect for adults and spend their time hanging around places gossiping with one another. They are ready to contradict their parents, monopolize the conversation and company, eat gluttonously and tyrannize their teachers . . . .” While this quote seemingly sums up the entitled teenager of today, it is in fact from Socrates, in about 400 B.C. The “troubled teens” are as normal as the “terrible twos”; with the years from the age of thirteen through to nineteen being highly charged with emotional, physical, and social changes that can be extremely difficult for both the teen and their parents to navigate. While almost everyone experiences some difficulties during this time, noticing a radical change in a teen’s behavior should cause a parent to dig deeper – today’s teenagers are indeed growing up in…