The Importance of Models in Adolescence

Sally Kohn: Why is it that adolescence is such a gigantic identity crisis for so many people? She asks why do you get that sort of hierarchy that exists of popular kids and not so popular kids. Kohn: I'm an only child, which probably affected the way that I approached high school. We have models in our life from the moment that we're born," she says. "I just kind of had to figure everything out of my own"