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If a teen is making a potentially reckless decision, should an adult stop it or allow it? In other words, should adults keep teens from getting hurt as a result of their mistakes or allow them to learn from their mistakes?
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Dylan Pratzner
4/14/2012 11:17:49 pm
I think that the job of an adult is to control and be aware of what kids are doing. If there was no adults to stop the reckless decisions, then there would be chaos and trouble with teens everywhere. If a teen makes a mistake, then a adult has to make them learn from it such as grounding them in their room for a week or so which is what many modern day parents do. A adult should try to stoop the mistake before it happens though.
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Judy Xia
4/15/2012 01:29:14 am
I think this should depend on what the reckless decision is. If the decision would against the law, adults should stop it completely, or maybe there will be no chance to improve it. Or if the decision is not too necessary but still reckless, and teens can’t stop doing it, adults could allow them to do it once. After that, adults could tell them why it is reckless. Chat with them about this, then they can understand it better, so they can learn from thir mistakes.
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Sophia D.
4/15/2012 02:12:15 am
I think adults should stop children from making stupid, reckless decisions. Adults should try to know what their kids are doing and if they are doing anything bad they should stop them. If their child was doing something reckless the child could maybe end up injurded pysically or killed. Being a parent, you would not want this to happen to your child so you would try to do anything to stop them. I think some bad things happen by accident that you learn from. If it is something minor I feel that the adult should give the kid advice but leave the final decision up to them. If it is their fault they made the mistake then they will learn from it and have no one to blame but themselves. Overall I think parent should stop their kids from doing really bad reckless things but they should let them learn from the small bad choices they make.
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Rob
4/15/2012 10:19:38 am
Adults are supposed to be role models and they model how we should be when we grow up. If they allow us to make reckless decisions we will make those decisions when we are older. If they are strict on their kids their kids will develop discipline. Although it's good to be strict on your kids if your to strict some kids end up going in the wrong direction with life. Kids who are pushed to hard could be introduced to gateway drugs and the parents would feel like they did wrong. So really the answer to this question is yes you should stop your kids from making reckless decisions but you shouldn't try to get in their life or be really strict with their descion making cause things could turn out for the worse.
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Rocco
4/15/2012 10:41:28 am
Kids usually look up to adults and think before they do. I would like my kids to learn from their mistakes. Another thing is it would have to depend on how bad the mistake is. If it is on a high level of breaking the law I would not like my kids to learn from that. I would rather have them learn by seeing the mistakes people took that can possibly ruin your life. Lastly, I
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Rocco
4/15/2012 10:43:45 am
Lastly, I would possibly take them somewhere such as a juvenile department on a tour if their before ever got out of control. In my eyes I think that would show how miserable you can become from simple mistakes you could prevent.
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Lucey M
4/15/2012 08:27:29 pm
I think that a parent should stop any reckless decisions. First of all if they are the parents then their responsicility is to keep their child safe no matter what. Also if even an adult sees reckless behaivor then they should step in because maybe they have a children themself and if they wouldnt want their kid doing that then they should stop it.
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Josh N
4/15/2012 08:49:09 pm
in my opinion, if a teen is doing reckless decisions the adults should allow it because teens will learn from their mistakes say if a teen is caught with a quarter ounce of pot in his pocket. the police started to question him about the pot. the teen is arrested and calls his parents and the parents say no were no bailing you out of jail.
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Dan
4/15/2012 08:57:53 pm
I think it is the job of the adult to correct to correct your childs bad behaveor so if theire child is going to do something bad it is their job to correct them but. Some times you learn more from mistakes so I think you have to let kids make mistakes. In order to live a succsesful life.
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Ian Gunn
4/15/2012 08:59:52 pm
I think that iti depends on the situation for the adult. If it is something like not doing your homework, then the parent should let the kid learn there lesson about not doing there homework and the consiquences for it. But if it something pretty big like getting married then they should step in. It causes way too many problems for the kids and the adult should not allow it under any circumstances. So for adults i think that there are times to step in and times to let kids make mistakes and learn from them.
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Amy li
4/15/2012 09:00:41 pm
If a teen is making a potentially reckless decision, the adults need to know the effect of it. If the effect of the decision cause to bad, parents need stop it. But if the hurt can fix, I think adults allow them to learn from their mistakes. Because of the hurt, teen will grow up, he or she will make less mistaken again. And they will became much fortitude.
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Andrew Tallman
4/15/2012 09:04:16 pm
In a normal non life thretining case then i think the adult should allow the kid or kids to learn from their mistakes because they would learn it better and they would have less chance of doing something like that again because they would know the outcome.
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Chris Couch
4/15/2012 09:04:56 pm
When a child is making a mistake it is habit for a parent to prevent or stop it but sometimes it is better to let kids learn mistakes on their own. Now with saying that I don't mean let a kid jump off a building but minor mistakes are ok to let a child learn for him or herself as long as it doesn't cause any real damage.
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Ryan Zimmerman
4/15/2012 09:05:05 pm
I think an adult should always have the right to be in this position, however I do not think anyone should be in the decision to make that other then the adult. I do think that they should be able to do this. But when it comes to the situation that is up to them, but if it is is anyway threatning of course they should be able to stop it. If there is anything a parent is meant to do that is to help there child make the right decision, and you should not be able to tell a parent where and when they should step in. So to complete this, I think that parents should step in only when they think they should, for example when they think there child is in danger.
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Chris Cooke
4/15/2012 09:05:43 pm
If a teen is making a bad desicion I think an adult should stop the teen before they do something bad. If the teen makes the bad desicion it could affect their entire life. When the parent does not interfear it could ruin the rest of the teens life. If the adult interfears the adult should tell the teen what he/she is doing wrong and help them make the right desicion. The adult should help the teen make the right desicion.
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Amanda G.
4/15/2012 09:05:58 pm
A parent should stop you from making a mistake, but they should also have to learn from our mistakes. In some cases if we are going to get really hurt then a parent needs to step in. A parent won't always be there to put a stop to it, so the teen needs to decide on their own. The parent needs to decide if the mistake can be learned from. So they need to step in when they think the mistake will go to far.
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will denney
4/15/2012 09:06:27 pm
I think that if the thing the kid is doing could get them seriously hurt then the adult should step in and stop them. If the decision is not reckless i think that the adult should let them learn from their mistakes. I think that the better way of the two is let them learn from their mistakes because it is a very good way for them to learn to not do something next time.It sticks in there head after learning from their mistakes more than if an adult tells them not to.
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Dalton L.
4/15/2012 09:06:36 pm
In my my opinion i feel that it depends on the situation. If they are going to do something that could ruin their life then the adult should stop them like if they are going to kill someone then they should stop them because it will affect many other people. Also if they are going to do something that is short term that could get them in trouble i feel that they should not stop them so they can learn from the mistake, but not always will they learn from the mistake like if you ground someone for a week does that mean they will learn from their mistake or will they just rebel more. If it does not have long term effect or if it does not affect other people then they should not stop them. IT just depends on the situation.
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Ian Gunn 2
4/15/2012 09:07:01 pm
I think that adults should step in when a child is making a mistake. In general if a kid is making a mistake then i think an adult should stop the kid and teach them why what they are about to dois wrong. That way the kid learns a lesson without harming themselves or any others. If adults step in then less harm is done, and lessons are learned.
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Ian Anderson
4/15/2012 09:07:06 pm
I think it is partially both parents and children to correct their bad behavior and learn from it. It should be the parents responsibility to keep them from getting put in a juvenile correctional facility or seriously hurt. The parents should protect their kids from long term mistakes. Children should learn from their own mistakes and protect themselves from doing anything stupid or could get them into trouble with their friends. Parents should help kids understand what the children did wrong if the kids don't think they did anything wrong.
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Jack O.
4/15/2012 09:09:02 pm
i think that adults should stop kids from making bad decisions.If they just let kids do what ever they want they could get in so much trouble that when the parents find out i would be too late.
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