PARENTS SHOULD LET TEENS MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION

Most parents think that teenagers aren't old enough to think farther.
Therefore, they always make decisions for their teenage children. This may
effect teenagers' futures because they will become dependent on their
parents and they will not be able to make their own decisions correctly.
They neither will have their own goals nor ambitions because everything in
their lives are made up and decided by their parents. In contrast, parents
should be there to help when their children make wrong decisions. Parents
should let their teenage children become who they want to be not who the
parents envisioned them to be. All in all, parents should support teenagers
to make their own decisions for better future.

Yes, because..

Teenagers need to make own mistakes. The best way to learn about
mistakes is to make them. Only when making mistakes can we experience
the emotions of regret etc and it is these emotions that we learn to avoid,
and will avoid by not making the same mistakes. A parent telling their
teenager about these mistakes is not as effective. Therefore, parents should
allow their teenagers room to make mistakes. It is only by learning from
past mistakes that we do not continue to repeat them, so as long as the
parent can see that their teenager is taking heed of their mistakes then
there is no need for them to step in and interfere.

Teenagers have their own personalities. hey might be very different people
to their parents and want to make very different decisions regarding their
lifestyle. Just like everyone has a right to be themselves, they have a right to
be themselves, even if they are very different to you and you don't approve
of their choices. There is a difference between giving someone good advice
on a matter where you are concerned about someone and trying to force
them to be someone they are not. Added to this is the problem that adults
have very different lives, wants and needs, for instance are in different
social situations to teenagers and don't fully empathize and adapt their
advice to fit the needs of a teenager more.
No, because..

Allowing teenagers to make their own decisions in some instances may be a

good thing but when it comes to making mistakes, what is the point? Why
let a CHILD (because they're not adults) experience heartache, regret,
etc...when it can all be avoided by the parent stepping in and doing their job
as a parent and making those types of decisions. I think that as the child
grows older and approaches the age to where they are legally considered
an adult by law, as their maturity increases so should their ability to handle
more responsibility and make their own decisions.

Teenagers are dependent on their parents, but that is not the only reason
they should listen to them or at least, share information with them in
making decisions/life-choices. Parents have reared teenagers into what they
are and continue to support them financially and emotionally. Teenagers
owe their parents the opportunity to mold them into adults. And they also
owe their guardians, the knowledge of how their life-long efforts panned
out.

I think, the best way to make parents let teens make their own decisions
when they are in their right age. If they are responsible enough to do things
on their own, not just depending on their parents.