There is a controversial view that parents should give their children a chance to behave and to decide independently from their young ages. Although there are some negative sides of it, I firmly believe that it is one of the most factors that has a significant impact on children’s future.
On the one hand, there might be some drawbacks of allowing young children to act and make decisions on their own. In other words, children may become stubborn and even disobedient due to too much freedom that their parents gave them. For example, in some developed countries like USA and South Korea, children are given a chance to decide where they go, what they eat and wear. If their parents prohibit to wear short and open clothes or to eat junk food, they do not follow them and even listen. Therefore, it indicates that giving independence to young children is not positive all the time. However, this kind of problems can be overcome by teaching children what is true and wrong for them.
In comparison, this action of parents can form the decision-making and problem-solving skills on children. When they let their children to make their own decision while choosing something to buy, eat, wear or even how to behave, the past experiences help them to decide on serious situations. If we take those countries again that are mentioned before, children leave their home at the age of 18, and they are almost independent at this age. As they are grown up with their own decisions, they are unlikely to face challenges with deciding on most things like choosing a university or starting a career that most people have a difficulty with. Moreover, they are not destructed by others useless advises if they know their decision is important then others’ opinions.
In conclusion, in spite of some negative impacts of it on the relationship between children and parents that can be addressed by the efforts of parents, the benefits of it in the future life of them is much more significant. I think, if more parents did the same work, more children would not have difficulties with being independent in their adulthood.