The Lie About Teenage Rebellion—Exposed by a 16-Year-Old | Weijia Sun | TEDxMCA Youth

The speaker gives a crisp, eye-opening reinterpretation of a word parents adore using: rebellion. His verdict on it? It does not exist. Rebellion, he says, is just what grown-ups choose to call it when a child has the audacity to be different. Sun’s arguments, supported by sociology and her relationship with her mother, who is famous for having a “non-rebellious” teenager, reveal three uncomfortable truths about “rebellion”: it is a power word, parental supervision is judgment, and most parents have empty t ...