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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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Kirsten Connell
4/15/2012 01:12:00 am
I think that adults should let teens make their own decisions. But it also depends on the situation. If the situation is like drinking and driving then adults should make the decision. But if it’s not studying for a test and failing the test than they shouldn’t make the decision the teen should. They should because it helps teens learn from their mistakes so they know not to do it again in the future.
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Ami Iannello
4/15/2012 02:41:20 am
In my opinion, I think depending on the situation, if a teen is making a potentially reckless decision, an adult should try and stop it. However, I think they shouldn't make the teen do or not do something, they should just try and guide them in the right direction. If they try to prevent them from getting hurt too much, the teens will never get to experience life and make mistakes and learn from them, but if they are about to make a huge mistake that could impact their life majorly, someone should help. The interference of an over-protective parent could cause a rebellious stage making it even harder to protect and guide the teen. I think, depending on the type of situtation that the teen is in, parents should try and help them.
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Kara
4/15/2012 03:26:04 am
If a teen was about to make a reckless and dumb decision, an adult should allow it. If the teen was prevented by a parent from doing the reckless action, they would never learn their lesson. These young adults who are put on leashes do not experience the absolute quality of life of making mistakes and learning different things. Also, those who are held down by their parents tend to go 'crazy' when they're free of the adult's supervision. If Romeo wasn't allowed to marry Juliet he would go insane. It was Friar Lawrence's right decision to marry the lovebirds.
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Joe Soffer
4/15/2012 04:45:53 am
Obviously, m answer depends on the situation, but in genral, I think parents should let their kids learn from their own mistakes. If the parents stop the kids from making their own decisions, they may become more curious to try it later in life, where it could be more harmful than it could have been origanally. Also, if the parents do not let the kids try new things, they could also become rebellious and make more reckless decisions, which would be more harful. Also, if the parents don't let the kids learn their lesson, they will never know why the decision was reckless, they would just think that because an adult told them so. In conclusion, I think parents should not stop their kids from making, reckless decisions because then they can learn their lesson on their own , which would prevent them from making the same reckless decisions over and over again.
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Frankie Joe
4/15/2012 09:19:44 am
but what if the parabolic view is purple?
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4/15/2012 09:10:41 am
In reality there are two types of consaquences, permanent and temperary. Adults should allow kids to make decitions with temperary consaquences because thats the only way to stop them from recreating those decitions later in life. Those with Permanent consaquences should be prevented from being made. Your only hope of stoping repitition is that the child learns the foolishness of the potential decition and not make it later. I feel this is the best way of ensuring that kids learn and dont permanently hurt themselves or others.
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Andrew Restrepo
4/15/2012 09:18:09 am
I believe that if a teen is making a potentially reckless decision that an adult should intervene. I feel this way because if you intervene before they learn from their mistakes they will be tempted to to do it later in their life and it could be worse. Also if you are a very controlling parent your kid will never be able to know what a real life experience is and when he is put out into the real world ie. college he will not know the the limits and will be curious to try things he never had the freedom to do and the results could be catastrophic.
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mike a
4/15/2012 09:31:40 am
I think that parents should not intervene with what the child is doing. I think this because the adult might have a different perspective on what the kid is doing and might think it is extremely bad when it isn't even that bad. Like, there might be a really over protective adult and sees something that is frowned upon, but isn't necessarily that bad and won't harm the person they will immediately act upon impulse and try to stop it. But if the child is doing something that is a major hazard to health or life-threatening, then they should intervene and try to stop it.
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Zack Brown
4/15/2012 09:33:38 am
I think that an adult should intervene if a teen is making a potentially bad decision. Teens need to learn from their experiences and more times their mistakes, and when an adult intervenes, it's because they care. The reasons for intervention should be based upon moral, not legality. People need to realize that laws in our society are used as a tactic to scare us and make us weaker, making us dependent on the government for our protection. These laws are immoral, and teaching our kids about the difference of morals and laws is the first step in letting them make big decisions on their own.
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Gabe Scull
4/15/2012 10:17:16 am
I think that if a teen was going to make a reckless decision then the parent should not allow the teen to make the decision. the adult should explain the consequences of the decision if the adult did not intervene. some of the consequences of bad decisions by teens are simply too harmful and an adult should not allow them to happen think it is batter for the adults to intervene and explain what could have happening rather than let terrible things happen.
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Brian Dougherty
4/15/2012 10:20:10 am
In general, I think adults need to let their children make decisions and learn from them. Most of the time, if a child chooses to do something wrong, they will realize it was a bad decision and won't do it again. Adults can't shield their children from going out and making a reckless choice. Sooner or later, unfortunate things will happen to them and there really isn't anything a parent can do to stop them from happening. If the parent tries to keep their child in the house all the time and won't let them have any freedom, the child could turn into a rebel and even worse things could happen because of how overly protective their parents are. If the parents don't allow the child to get in trouble for their recklessness, the child may never understand why their decision was a bad one and why they should never let it happen again.
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Nicky p
4/15/2012 10:34:26 am
Depending in the situation, I think the adult should guide the teen to make the correct choice. If the adult forces the teen to do something, he/she might rebel. I think if the adult can guide the teen in the right direction, they won't rebel. If the adult does guide them in the right direction, the teen will most likely listen to them. I personally believe that depending on the situation, adults should guide teens in the right direction.
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Dwi Adhinoto
4/15/2012 10:37:09 am
I think in general parents need to let teens make their own reckless decision, because generally teens do not listen to their parents most of the time. By letting them make their own decisions they both learn from that decision and they solve their own problems more effectively. Problem solving cannot be thought in a class with textbooks. By letting the teen make their own decisions they can learn from the decision that they made, and find out what is good and what is bad. The decision that they made can also help them become more independent. Also mostly, it is more effective to let the teen make their own mistakes and let them understand why it is bad, rather than telling them that it is bad without letting them know why it is bad.
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John Shepard
4/15/2012 10:38:40 am
REAPER!
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Nicky p. correct one
4/15/2012 11:01:53 am
I think adults should intervene if a kid is making a bad decision. The adult should explain the consequences of why could happen from the decision and not make them deal with the consequences themselves. By this, I think it would scare the teen and probably not have them make the wrong decision. If an adult lets them learn from their mistakes, it may be awful for their lives. If it was something against the law, and they get arrested, it could be detrimental to their lives. If that would happen, they may have troubles getting into college, or even getting a job. That is why I think an adult should intervene with a teen from making a wrong decision
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Madelaina Murphy
4/15/2012 11:09:29 am
I think that parents should raise their kids to know right from wrong and be able to make good decisions. If parents teach their kids to not follow the crowd they will be able to trust them more and give them more freedom. If parents don't raise them to be leaders it is harder for the parents to trust their kids and the kids will get less freedom leading them to rebel more. If kids are raised with good morals they will make the right decisions and won't have to learn from their mistakes because they will already know how to make the right choice. There are certain instances where when a kid makes a mistake it is already to late to learn from it, you can't get away with everything. If parents asume that kids will learn from every mistake they make that is just being stupid because certain things are to dangers to start or do. It is the parents job to teach their kids right from wrong.
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Morgan Hackworth
4/15/2012 11:31:24 pm
I thick adults should let teens make their own decisions but in a controlled envirmoment with limits. Kids these days have no limits to what is bad and good, and punishments should correlate to this. Punishments may need to become more severe. Patents these days also give their children way to much freedom to do what ever they want. And I do not agree.
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Christa
4/19/2012 07:50:31 am
If a teen is making a bad choice the adult around shouldnt stop it. They've made mistakes of their own that they have learned from, if a child never makes mistakes they'll never know what to do & when you do it. If the kid keeps making the same mistake than an adult needs to step in, other wise, they need to lay off.
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Maggie M
4/20/2012 12:54:13 am
I think that if a child is going to make a a bad choice, an adlut should tell them what is going to happen but let them make the choice if they are going to do it or not. If the child is always doing what there parents say then they will more likely rebeal. i think that kids should make there own choices.
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Abby
4/20/2012 01:02:10 am
I think that Adults should let teens make their own discisions. Teenagers are young adults, and they need to learn to be independent. If adults are always telling them how to run their life, how are they going to learn anything for themselves? There is only one exception for when adults should help make descisions. That is when it's a life or death situation. For example, if a teenager is planning on commiting suicide, or doing drugs, or commiting a serious crime, then an adult should step in. They can't make the descision for the kid, but they should help. If the adult doesn't let the teenager decide anything, then the kid will revolt and that won't end well. Adults should let teenagers make their own descisions.
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Breanna Miller
4/20/2012 10:21:21 am
I believe that the parent should let them do it. Everyone when they are younger are learned right from wrong and if they want to make the dum decision let them. There parents shouldnt have to keep on telling them to do the right thing then they will never learn. Your parents arent going to protect you and be there to help you all the time. Thats what alot of teens need to learn. They need to be responcible for there actions.
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Sophia Maltese
4/21/2012 09:39:16 am
I think that parents, in general, should intervene if their kid is making a dumb decision. Of course, the severity of the outcome also is a factor, but in general, the small stupid things that a kid does during the day should go uncorrected. Like if a teen decides not to go to sports practice, they will get yelled at by their coach and that will hopefully compel them to attend next time. however if the parents intervene the teen might start viewing the sport as a burden and not a privilege, and try to skip out more often. However, if they decide to go and jump off a bridge, then i believe some friendly parental intervention might be necessary.
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