Barbara Strauch's The Primal Teenage

Understanding and accepting the teenage brain takes substantial persuasion and a remarkable memory of one’s own adolescent years. Knowing about teenagers is one concept, but synthesizing your experiences with theirs and perceiving the logic behind their actions is another. Teenagers are a subculture with their ideas and actions alone. In The Primal Teen, Barbara Strauch makes her point valid by appealing to the audience about a familiar, and often unanswered topic, by using rhetorical connections and proven statistics. Although the teen brain differs from children and adults dramatically, Barbara Strauch makes the difficult times of the lives of everyone involved simpler and brings it to a more positive light. Barbara Strauch has two teenagers and like other parents, she did not focus on the neurological reasons her teenagers were becoming very different people than they were (p. xi). She faced the trails and errors
Her primary audience is people who once thought that their teenagers were manipulating and disrespecting them because of a trend. Strauch appeals to her audience’s logos by giving real life situations of other parents of teenagers, and several quotes from them also. She gives them logic by not only providing quotes from parents, but also provides quotes from teenagers and gets their mind frame of the current situation. Her ideas are also heavily supported by scientific evidence. She puts several facts about the human brain and how it changes and functions during adolescent years, stating how several parts of the brain are directly correlated to behavior and thinking in teens. She informs her readers that her information is credible, since she is a science editor, she receives several articles from neurologists about new information and discoveries about the teenage