Don T Act Cool Short Story

I do not know if you know this or not but the kids do not come to school to learn they come to school to socialize and to show off their clothes. They come to school every day and do the same exact thing, I just do not understand how you can go through four years of high school and not put forth any effort graduate. Maybe it is just me but I can't look for it to see myself standing on the corner and get excited about it. Every day after school on the bus ride home I see kids that have dropped out of school. And they are walking to school after school is out. I actually feel sorry for them because they don't have any guidance. All the kids these days just want to get high have sex and wear expensive clothes. But if you actually step back and notice how much money you are spending on these things and stop and saved up. No one in the city of Benton Harbor would be poor or in poverty. But I can not blame the kids for them doing what they are doing because they do not have the guidance and the push at home for them to want to graduate and want to succeed in life. I just wish that I could have experienced Benton Harbor back when the high school was flooded with thousands of students and the city did not experience death after death because of unnecessary

understanding of the faults of teens and how they are raised need to be understood before proper

We hold these truths to be obvious, that we are all created equally and all have our own rights. To which we should be able to rule our own lives. To be successful in doing so, the Adults must allow the Teenagers to expand their mind and grow on their own. After the adults are to strict on a Teenager, they lose confidence.

Similarly, both teenage boys and girls struggle with decision making and the impulse of wanting to make an “adult decision.” “In other words, it takes longer for adolescents to figure out when not to do something.” (The Teenage Brain, pg. 55) Teenagers are vulnerable to learning the “wrong” things because they’re curious about the world and sometimes this will get them in trouble. Both male and female teenagers are wanting to be their own people and make their own decisions but often don’t want to face the consequences. “Self-feeling, ambition, exaggeration, and excess – they

Until the teachers are ready to call parents then the adolescent wants to be indecent because they know the repercussion of their action when they get home. Wondering why they are failing cause they are being careless and not taking school seriously, but can get serious when the teacher tell them their grade, yet have an non caring attitude towards the teachers. Never the less , there are a lot of teens that is just rude because they want everything there way and do not want to listen to nobody else its everything thing they doing is the right thing. For example a boy named Mark was told to go to the store for his dad to get certain supplies for the house, so he went, her saw so things he wanted picked those up along with the others and over spent on his dad card. He got home and his dad was disappointed in him, but acted like he did not care, his dad told Mark that he can not go to the store for him again. In conclusion, are adolescents careless? Yes, they are they want the world to hand them every thing so easily, while neglecting their priorities and thing that there is no consequences for their negligence and if that is the way they want to go through life thinking that then they might no make it out here in the real world.

Teens who are decision-making autonomy shows independence and responsibility. It doesn’t matter what decisions they are making, if they are making changes in their life then they are showing autonomy. Authoritative parents are the ones with autonomy teens. They are the ones who make sacrifices for they teens and are willing to corporate with them when it comes to decision making. In the text, “researchers find that adolescents are less likely to think about the long-term implications” (Steinberg, 1952). They are usually more focused on the immediate consequences that happens when they make their own decisions. The study that was demonstrated in the article shows changes in the development of behavioral

Stated by an unknown, on debate.org, “ Children do not have good judgement and can also end up in questionable situations.” What this person means by that is most teens are always talked into doing the wrong things mostly by pure pressure which mans they sometimes due to pure pressure they can’t tell if what they’re doing is a good or bad thing. My parents tell me they understand I’m a teenager and I would most likely want to go out with friends at my age, but they still like for me to be older and show more responsibility.

Teenagers depend on their parents for help in life in general. They depend on them for help, food, shelter, safety, everything. They also depend on the people around them for support and reassurance in life and their decisions.

Parents should be responsible for what teens do. Some details that support this are that teens can be really stupid sometimes and do bad things on the internet and put bad things on there. Then the parents go on there and see it, then that would be the parents fault because the child put something bad on their that didn’t need to get out. Tom Kersting an expert said “it has become more than just a part of life; it’s now a way of life.” Teens act and do all kinds of bad things and crazy sorts of thing.

People don’t always make the best decisions under pressure. Teenagers especially don’t react well when overwhelmed due to inexperience. For example, Johnny Cade from The Outsiders, was scared of being attacked, so he stabbed his adversary. Because he did that, he had to go into hiding. If he would’ve thought more about it, there might have been a different outcome.

According to Carter (2002), Sanders & Epstein argued that despite the fact that adolescences need more independence than young children, they need to know that they still have the full support and confidence of parents, teachers and community members. While I agree with sanders and Epstein’s view, I believe that when relating to adolescences it is important that the adults in their lives to do impose too much of their belief on how to do things. From my observation and experience it makes teenage children become rebellious and resentful of parental involvement. I believe teenage children need a little room to make mistakes and learn from them. They need to be develop a sense of autonomy and responsibility. I have seen situations where despite parental warning and advice about participating in unproductive activities some adolescences still engaged in these

Brain researchers are able to scan teenagers brains to see why they act the way they do. The researchers are trying to help the parents during these years because during the teen years the brain is still developing and requires a person to make good decisions. The brain is still trying to make connections. That’s exactly why people have to be careful what they say to teens because they might start some bad behavior. You have to remember teens can be less responsible. These reactions may cause some bad behavior. Even though age is not an excuse for bad behavior the brain needs to focus and needs support. Teens go through roller coasters at this age, and so do the parents trying to fix it. The parents just need to talk to them. These years can

Parents have always pondered the question, ‘is there something wrong with my teenager. Years ago people thought it was dark forces. Aristotle gathered that “the young are heated by nature as drunken men by wine.” (quote) It's not that they haven't had time or experience. But actually it is that teens go through vital brain changes when they hit adolescence. This is such a vital time that it's important for parent to be with their child every step of the way.

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”(Abraham Lincoln). This quote means that if you put it off now it will come back later, this can be compared well with adolescent accountability. Adolescents should be held accountable for their actions and responsibilities when they are 18 because they are a legal adult, they definitely know the consequences, and their brains are almost completely developed. Therefore they should not be held majorly responsible till they are at the age of 18. Many people think that the age should be lower, but facts and reason show that it shouldn’t.

Parents can’t really make their teens choose the right thing, but they must affirm and validate the freedom they already have. Freedom to choose poorly is necessary to learn to choose well but it has its limits. If a problem is life-threatening or dangerous, parents must intervene. There are many ways in which parents can offer freedom to a teenager. These include permission to drive, responsibility for choosing friends, autonomy over use of electronic devices and use of social media, and independence to choose their types of clothing, dates, and make-up. Teenagers with new freedom have more time which if held in the wrong hands can produce deadly consequences so parents have to teach teenagers about responsibility by precept and example. They can teach how to choose the right kind of friends, understand the characteristics of genuine friendship, learn about slothfulness, the value of strong family ties, the danger of strong drink, and the folly of pride and anger.