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Some people think that parents should set strict rules for children if they hope to see their children succeed in life. However, I believe that they should not set strict rules if they want their children to succeed in life. This is because setting strict rules for children prevents children from becoming well grown people by hurting their feelings, and taking out opportunities to learn decision making skills.
To begin with, setting strict rules can easily hurt children’s emotions, leading many drawbacks. When children get hurt emotionally, they want to express their feelings. Children tend to express their feelings by doing bad things. As a result, strict rules will drag their life into worse situation. According to the study held by Harvard university, 82 percent of respondents out of 200 children who took rehabilitation courses said rigorous rules made them to decide to do something bad. For instance, a parent set a rule saying that you should not hang out with children who don’t study hard. They scolded him when he hung out with friends whose grades are not good. The child got hurt, and then decided to drink alcohol. Strict rules did not help him succeed, rather trigger him to do bad things. In this regard, I believe setting strict rules will not help children succeed in their life.
Furthermore, it is very important for children to have decision making abilities. They need to make decisions by themselves when they deal with many problems when parents are not around them. If they get used to following rules restricting their behaviors, they will not have enough skills to make. Consequently, children who get used to strict rules will not know what they have to do in the future. For instance, I have a friend whose parents are super strict. They had a lot of rules for the kid. For example, he needed to go back home right after a school finished to study harder. He seemed like he studied well and got good grades. However, he did not know what we had to do when his parents were not by him. As a result, he called me every time when he had a problem when his parent’s were not there. This characteristic still lasts and disrupts him to succeed in his life. In this regard, I believe that setting strict rules will prevent children to succeed in their life by taking out chances to learn how to make decisions by themselves.
To sum up, I believe that setting strict rules by parents does not help children succeed in their life for the following reasons; Strict rules make children hurt, resulting children to do many bad things that they didn’t do originally, and the rules set by parents will take out chances for children to learn how to make decisions by themselves, which is very important to succeed in their life. Consequently, the importance of my opinion cannot be underestimated for the reasons I mentioned above.
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