Exam Essay
High School dating may seem like an insignificant choice, but that “meaningless choice” can actually have a large impact on the rest of a teenager’s life. The truth is that people are placed in groups based on the people you associate yourself with. If a teenager is dating someone who is a bad influence they can quickly and easily be sucked into that group of people. A bad dating choice can negatively affect a teenager for the rest of their lives… like resulting in an untimely death, RIP Romeo and Juliet. As guardians to teenagers, parents have the ability to prevent many bad choices by regulating a teens behavior, like decding who they can and cannot date. To the teenager it may seem unfair but a parent's dating rule can help a …show more content…
Throughout the play the character Romeo displays his impulsive tendencies. In Act I he is moping over Rosaline one minute and in the same day completely forgets about her and falls in love with Juliet. This reiterates the impulsiveness of teenagers, especially when it comes to relationships. If a teen is so quick to make life decisions without contemplating the consequences there can be negative repercussions. For example if an adolescent is so eager to jump into relationships without judgement they probably will not stop to think when taking part in risky relationship activities. Romeo and Juliet's relationship, one that their parents would not approve of, leads down a road that results in many bad events. The two young lovers are bad influences on each other, their love for each other causes them to make reckless decisions: Romeo climbs over the high stone walls around juliet’s orchard just to see her, and if he is caught he will be killed(Act II, Scene I). The couple’s risk taking behavior results in them trying to make a hopeless relationship work. Both teenagers are too quick to advance as lovers, kissing within minutes of meeting and making out even though they have hardly spoken, and as Juliet says, “My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance,”(Act II, scene II). To top it off …show more content…
They believe that parents should let kids make their own mistakes and that if parents try to regulate teens behavior then they will rebel just to spite them. While letting teenagers make their own mistakes is a good parenting strategy for smaller situations, a big choice that can effect a teens life like a dating choice should be inspected by the parents. There are just too many negative things that can result from a relationship gone wrong. Teenagers do have a tendency to rebel against their parents if they feel like they are controlling their lives, but the adolescent needs to understand that it is the parent's job to watch over their decisions and if needed forbid certain choices. In time if it was a good choice to forbid the relationship the teen will understand the parents motives and even thank them for steering them down the right
High School dating may seem like an insignificant choice, but that “meaningless choice” can actually have a large impact on the rest of a teenager’s life. The truth is that people are placed in groups based on the people you associate yourself with. If a teenager is dating someone who is a bad influence they can quickly and easily be sucked into that group of people. A bad dating choice can negatively affect a teenager for the rest of their lives… like resulting in an untimely death, RIP Romeo and Juliet. As guardians to teenagers, parents have the ability to prevent many bad choices by regulating a teens behavior, like decding who they can and cannot date. To the teenager it may seem unfair but a parent's dating rule can help a …show more content…
Throughout the play the character Romeo displays his impulsive tendencies. In Act I he is moping over Rosaline one minute and in the same day completely forgets about her and falls in love with Juliet. This reiterates the impulsiveness of teenagers, especially when it comes to relationships. If a teen is so quick to make life decisions without contemplating the consequences there can be negative repercussions. For example if an adolescent is so eager to jump into relationships without judgement they probably will not stop to think when taking part in risky relationship activities. Romeo and Juliet's relationship, one that their parents would not approve of, leads down a road that results in many bad events. The two young lovers are bad influences on each other, their love for each other causes them to make reckless decisions: Romeo climbs over the high stone walls around juliet’s orchard just to see her, and if he is caught he will be killed(Act II, Scene I). The couple’s risk taking behavior results in them trying to make a hopeless relationship work. Both teenagers are too quick to advance as lovers, kissing within minutes of meeting and making out even though they have hardly spoken, and as Juliet says, “My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance,”(Act II, scene II). To top it off …show more content…
They believe that parents should let kids make their own mistakes and that if parents try to regulate teens behavior then they will rebel just to spite them. While letting teenagers make their own mistakes is a good parenting strategy for smaller situations, a big choice that can effect a teens life like a dating choice should be inspected by the parents. There are just too many negative things that can result from a relationship gone wrong. Teenagers do have a tendency to rebel against their parents if they feel like they are controlling their lives, but the adolescent needs to understand that it is the parent's job to watch over their decisions and if needed forbid certain choices. In time if it was a good choice to forbid the relationship the teen will understand the parents motives and even thank them for steering them down the right