Should parents make important decisions for their children?

Important decisions are those will have a significant or lasting impact on one’s life. Usually such a decision is difficult to make because the consequences are considerable and grave. For this reason, when it comes to the topic whether parents should make important decisions for their children, people have diverse ideas. Before rendering an opinion, it is essential to take a balance at the arguments on each side.

To be sure, in a sense, the parents or other relatives should take an active part in the decision-making process. They can use their experiences and knowledge to help their children to avoid costly mistakes while allow them to gain confidence and learn from their small errors so that they can make mature decisions in the future.

However, granted that the above-mentioned point of view has a few benefits, it does not mean that all the critical choices of children should be decided by their parents or other adult relatives. Since children need to live in the society and parents can not protect their children forever, children should rely on their own experiences and knowledge to grow and mature. Some people might say the children are too immature and inconsiderate to make an important decision by themselves. Undoubtedly, it is true. However, on the contrary, can anybody ensure that parents could always make exactly correct and comprehensive decisions for their children? So why not give children chances to make their own decisions? It will not only enhance their abilities of dealing with crucial matter but the experiences of failure would also lead them to understand the reality.

Furthermore, the ability of making a sound decision is an outstanding skill to a person’s life. Seldom could a child become a talent person without having his own thought. I could not imagine what a child could be whose parents make nearly all the essential choices for him.

For all the reasons mentioned above, parents and relatives do not make a decision for their children is an ideal and optimal selection and that would allow the children better prepare to stand on their own feet when they grow up.