By: Steerpike

Steerpike
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:06:13 +0000

In reply to Sagacity.

You make a good point about needing to treat teens as young adults, but they have to learn to become adults by pushing their boundaries as children. If we don’t allow children to do that, then they will still be children throughout their teenage years.

The examples you give from your own experience were surely all possible because the teens in question had benefited from a childhood that encouraged their transition to young adults. This gave them the independence and common sense to be able to cope in an adult world. I fear that the risk adverse and socially stunted childhood typically experienced by kids today leaves them unprepared for adult life.

As for the benefits of going into the workplace and learning a trade, rather than continuing in education to collect more qualifications which are of little practical use, I couldn’t agree more. Further and higher education are right for some, but certainly not all (and probably not most).