What are teenagers coming to these days? Many teens are becoming more irresponsible, especially in America. The majority of them are involved in drugs, drinking, and sexual relationships. Girls are becoming pregnant earlier because they are not considering the effect of having sex with their boyfriend. More teens are drinking and driving illegally and are causing fatal vehicle accidents. They are simply not taking responsibility for their actions anymore.
They are also so dependent on others to provide for them that they can not even make their own bed or complete their homework. In America today, teens depend on their parents or legal guardians for everything. Most teenagers do not even have a job because their parents provide them with plenty of money to spend. In some cases, teenagers are just too lazy to work and rather reap the benefits of someone else putting the energy into the job.
Most of the time when a teen is in trouble, the problem points to how their parents raised them. Parents are ignoring the fact that their children are growing up and not learning how to be responsible. Responsibility begins at the home and is not something that be learned by going to a lecture. It is a growing and learning experience that one should be taught from very young. Parents just want their children to have a good experience growing up. However, this does not mean that they should not teach their kids to be responsible for themselves. If parents truly love their children, they will instruct them how to be responsible for their behavior and actions, so that they can cope with the world someday when they are on their own. Thus, the result of teenagers being irresponsible today is the lack of parents not emphasizing or instructing their children to be accountable for themselves.
I could not agree with you more. But not all teenagers are irresponsible. We spent the last three days with a sixteen year old boy, Zach, the grandson of our friends, a very mature young man. He has a job, goes to school, has good grades and pretty much a good kid all around.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that training a child up in the way they should go is entirely the parents responsibility, not the school, friends, or the church. The other areas can help guide but the main training should come from the parents.
I will have to say it is not just teenagers, but some of the young adults walking around Tyler Junior College are pretty pathetic. Not enough sense to care that they look stupid with their pants around their knees; and they think it looks cool. You would think that someone in college would have more common sense than to go around holding their pants up with one hand in their pocket. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm just too old to understand this concept. Where is the self respect?
I totally agree with this also. Parents think they are doing their kids favors by giving them everything and not teaching or making them work for anything but it really ends up hurting them in the long run. I am so glad I had parents who understood the value in teaching me responsibility and other skills that are useful in life.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe you could have put this problem a better way. I'm so grateful that my parents couldn't afford to give me everything I wanted when I was younger. For that reason I learned how to start working at a very young age for the things that I wanted. If I wanted clothes, or a car, or even to go out to eat, I knew I would have to get a real job to get the things I wanted. So many of the people I grew up with and even my close friends have had things handed to them their whole entire life and they don't truly appreciate the value of a dollar or that it will be like one day when they are on their own. I wish more parents would understand that they are not helping their children by buying them whatever they want.
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