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Some people think that children can make
decisions without the help of their parents. However, in my opinion, children
need help from their parents when they are deciding something. There are two
reasons: First, parents have enough experience to help their children. Second,
children are not mature enough to have fine logical thinking.
To begin with, more experience can lead you
to better decisions and it is obvious that parents have more experience than
their children. I believe experience is one of the most essential factors of
success in this world. Although we can get loads of information
from the textbooks and media, it cannot give us all the solutions to the
problems that we are having in our lives. When my cousin was 5th grade student,
she had big fight with her friend. This was because she wanted to play with her
friend's doll but the friend would not let her play with it. So my cousin was harsh
on her friend and it became a big fight. But later, my cousin wanted to
apologize to her friend, but she did not know the good way to say sorry. So she
talked about this problem with her parents, and she got good advice of how to
apologize and additionally, she also learned how to behave when there can be
some conflicts with friends. Consequently, she got along well with her friend
and they are still best friends.
On the top of that, children do not have
the ability to think reasonably because they are not mature enough. It is
widely known that prefrontal region of the brain develops until adulthood. This
area of the brain engages in planning, logical thinking, and limiting
impulsiveness. In other words, they are biologically immature so it is essentially
hard for them to make logical and reasonable decision. For example, a study was
conducted by cognitive psychology majors to determine if cognitive control was
engaged in selection to eat candy. The process of the experiment is as follows:
Children sit in front of the table which has a candy on it. Experimenter left the children alone with the candy on its
table and tells the children not to eat it until she comes. If the
children eat candy without waiting, they only get one candy, but if they wait
for the experimenter to come, they get three candies. The result showed that
adolescents significantly waited for longer time than children did. This was
because adolescents are more mature enough to wait and gain more benefits - the
candies. And this result also reflect the fact that children are not mature
enough to think more and act out which means they need help from their parents
to avoid making impulsive decision.
To sum up, parents lived more which makes
them to have more experiences to help their children. Moreover, children are
not yet fully developed to make correct decisions in all the situations. In
this regard, I firmly hold that children need their parents' help when making
decisions.
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