In the Shakespearean play “Romeo and Juliet”, the parents of adolescent children often made choices for their children such as where they were to be at a certain time and how they were to dress for a certain party. One of the most unusual decisions made for the children, according to our time, was the decision of courting and marriage. Parents would choose who the child was to marry and when the wedding would be. Many people of the present day in age believe that children should be able to choose whoever they want to be with for the rest of their lives. Other parents try to shelter their children from the world and restrict them from dating certain people. Due to recent brain studies, real life examples, and examples from “Romeo and Juliet”, parents should be able to exclude certain people from dating their child. Parents should be able to limit their child’s dating life due to recent brain studies. According to the PBS documentary “Inside the Teenage Brain”, teenagers’ brains are still developing from puberty and are more likely to try riskier or more dangerous events, such as going out with more dangerous people. Parents need to keep an eye out on their children as they may have chosen the wrong person to go out with and could possibly end up getting hurt. The article also says that teenagers are afraid to ask their parents for help, entitling the adolescents to do whatever they think is correct. Teenagers don’t always know what is right and wrong, so they need their parents to guide them in times of need. In the article “Beautiful Brains” by David Dobbs, he states that when parents gently, but steadily, lead them through teenage years, adolescents do better as adults. If parents lead their children through the tough parts of their life, such as looking for a date, the teens will remember their parents’ advice for later in life. Therefore, adolescents should not be able to date a certain person without their parents’ consent. Another reason why parents should prevent their teens from dating certain people is that they are just trying to help their child on the path known as life. My parents have limited me from dating certain people and have given me guidelines to follow for the people that I may want to
Teens should be allowed to go online and go on social media without their parents freaking out and being over protective and monitoring everything. Parents should be able to trust their kids. Social media is used to express yourself. Boyd said “they want the freedom to explore their identity and the world around them”. And that can't happen if our parents are supervising our online
Welcome to Verona, a town where two rival families and their accomplices make terrible decisions. For one, telling a child to get married at thirteen years old is a bad parenting decision on its own. In “Romeo and Juliet,” people got married and had kids at an extremely young age. Being so young, people of those ages tend to not make rational decisions; however, even the adults in the tragedy couldn’t wisely make decisions. Capulet forcing Juliet to marry Paris caused Juliet stress and made it harder for Romeo and Juliet to be together.
In real world perspective, young adults go through the same situations. Young men will get attached to young females because it is something fairly new to them. Young adults are learning date etiquette from their parents then they can choose what they do with it. Our parents are very knowledgeable and have been in certain situations that they do not want to see their children in. But, young adults still choose to not respect their parents and will do what they want to do sometimes leading to consequences. This is a growing dilemma with young adults in this generation.
It’s actually, according to Advanced Parenting Techniques, a very healthy and necessary step in growing up. Allowing teens to simply explore boundaries, within reason, can be a healthy form of
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy play written by Shakespeare. It is set in Verona, Italy during the 13th century, two noble families are feuding and two young lovers, one from each family fall in love. Romeo and Juliet have to keep their love a secret due to the ongoing war between their families. This suggests that their relationship with their parents is not one of trust. Relationships between children and parents then and now are very different because today parents are much closer to their children emotionally however in the time the play was set in the parents and children were distant from each other, this may be because nowadays parents are the prime carers but then people would
The Relationship Between Parents And Children In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet The tragedy of 'Romeo and Juliet' is the result of feuding between two noble families in Verona/Italy. Romeo was born into the Montague household, who were the more controlled, quieter family. They did not 'enjoy' the fights therefore tried to avoid the feuds.
In the story “Romeo and Juliet” they wanted to be together but their parents was stopping them. Romeo and Juliet’s parents refused for them to be together because of some feud they have. To begin with, Juliet ran off and married Romeo with the help of Friar Lawrence. Romeo had drunken some poison to kill his self. Juliet wit to Friar Lawrence for help and he suggested that she marry Paris to get over Romeo. She told him that she wouldn’t do that because her heart is joined with Romeo’s. In the article it stated “And I’ll solve this problem with this knife. God joined my heart with Romeo’s, you just joined our hands.” (Act 4 scene 1) She was willing to kill herself before she married prince because she loved Romeo. Next, Romeo killed Juliet’s
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and in life, parental relationships not only have a huge effect on children’s lives, but also on the children’s friendships and romantic relationships. Children can be impacted by their parents in many ways including the help they receive from their parents, the values their parents teach, and the expectations their parents. The affects of parental relationships extend to friendships which are impacted by children confiding in their parents, the ideologies that parents teach, and the expectations the parents have of friendships. Finally, romantic relationships are influenced by parental relationships as well through children being open to their parents, what parents expose their children
More kids start dating at to young of an age then they should be. Dating in high school has good things and bad. There are people that can date and focus and there are people who can not. There are good people and bad. There are people that can go to party's and not drink and have fun, but there are people that get drunk and do dumb stuff like sex and drugs. So I don't ever want my daughter to ever do that. When my daughter starts to date, she must follow my rules.
Many readers see Romeo and Juliet as a narrative of star-crossed lovers, a dramatic tale of lovers destined for affliction. However, upon closer examination, his play may have a moral even Shakespeare himself could not have foreseen. Parenting is risky business, and can lead a child’s demise if done badly. While this is exemplified in Romeo and Juliet, in today’s society many people are growing interest in this morbid topic. It has come to light in recent years that there is a new breed of parents. “Helicopter Parents,” named for their constant hovering over their children, are steadily becoming the norm. These parents seem to have no self control when it comes to their influence within
When most people think of teenagers they think of them being irresponsible, or immature, which leads them to not thinking that they can do the right thing. But as parents it is their duty to help control and guide their children into making the right direction. Parents don’t have to sit and hover over their child but they need to help and have a say in what they do, such as dating. When teenagers decide to start dating it can be a big deal and have many responsibilities that go along with it. To help protect their children, I think that parents should have the right to forbid teenagers to date certain people.
Another part of growing up is having relationships that occur during adolescent years around parents. Parents often try to control their children by telling them who they can and can not date. This method does not work the majority of the times but it is still tried. Let’s take Egeus and his daughter Hermia for instance, Egeus’s desire is for Hermia to marry Demetrius. Egeus believes that Lysander has vexed Hermia into loving him through various forms of persuasion. Egeus even suggest an ultimatum of either marriage or meet her Demise, Egeus says, “I beg the Ancient privilege of Athens as she is mine, I may dispose of her; which shall be to this gentleman or to her death, according to our law immediately provided in that case.” (Bevington,
The age of adolescence has gained a reputation of being a strange and pessimistic part of the life. Many Adults look down on teenagers because of the growth of problems that stem from their questionable decision making skills on very important decisions that would affect them during for the rest of their adolescence and adulthood life. This state of life has been looked down upon ever since the 16th century. As seen from the story Romeo and Juliet where Shakespeare shows teenagers as most stereotypes shown them, as people who does not think about the risk that comes with some of the situations they’re in. From this it can be said the Shakespeare sees the adolescents in a negative view because of their ways of impractical thinking where they don’t think about what the decision they make during that age could affect them later in life and risk everything for one thing and show how the teenage brain acts on an impulse which he shows via the adolescent characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet.
Maya Angelou once said, "Love is like a virus it can happen to anybody at anytime." Dating can negatively affect my teenagers life if they don't have good manners. It can also affect them by always worrying about there girl/boyfriend. Dating could positively affect my teenagers because they could help each other out, and hangout if groups. My teenager can not hangout if the house if no parents are home.
I believe parents should set rules for teen dating. My reasoning behind this is that like stated in the article if we know we are not allowed to date then we will most likely do it behind our parents back. I believe that most of us teenagers will be pretty comfortable with being able to date even if there are some rules. Some rules can be that before they go out on a first day or so they have to meet the parents. I feel like it shows respect to both side of the families and also believe each parents should know or have an idea of what kind of person their children is going out with. This applies to all ages except college. While being in middle school and high school dating in my perspective is not as serious as when you get older.