It is quite clear that decisions, as we know, are fairly crucial to one’s life because decisions make people go forward. At the same time, there is a serious controversy that whether critical decisions for their older teenage children should be made by others such as parents, other adult relatives. Some people believe that oneself should make one’s decision no matter how old the one is. However, others advocate that the children can’t make decisions for themselves because of their lack of experience. There is probably something true in both sides, yet as far as I am concerned, people should make their own decisions even if they are teenage children.
On one hand, the earlier a person makes decisions by himself, the earlier he can gain the ability of making the best decisions for himself. The time of becoming a good decision-maker is vital to one’s life. Accordingly to a recent survey, the older a man is, the more cost a man should pay for failure. That is too, although the person who is very young can’t make the best decision or even he gains failure as a consequence of a wrong decision, the cost of the failure is less because at that age of him, the decision he makes is less essential than that which is made when he becomes an adult. Thus, depending on the statements above, why do not people study the ability to make the best decision when the tuition of such study is low?
On the other hand, making determinations by oneself decrease the opportunities for him to complain others and be less responsible for himself. Take a classmate of mine, Jack, for example, Jack is a person who always follows the adults’ decision and complains to them once the decision made by the adults is identified as a determination that leads to a bad result. Nevertheless, sometimes it is perhaps an excuse, isn’t it? Maybe the not successful consequence is not come from a wrong determination but his laziness. And he would not try to find something wrong in himself but always try to attribute his failure to others who make decisions for him. In a word, if others are not willing to make decisions for their children, the children will make less complaint on others and more responsibilities to themselves.
Certainly, thanks to more experience of adults, they make better decisions than children because of good results. However, is this really the truth? Let me take one of my friend for example to confirm my point. Mary whose career was determined by her parents is now bored with her career as a doctor and not happy though she is very wealthy due to the career. Hence it is quite clear that a great result that the adults consider perhaps does not fit for the child’s interest and makes the child depressed.
Now, from what has been discussed above, we may safely arrive at a conclusion that to make decisions by the older teenage children is essential to themselves due to the good impacts on them owing to making decisions by themselves.