Blog #6 Outline of Paper

THESIS: Although most parents want their children to have free will, many influence and push them in the way they want them to live.
I. Parents sometimes want to live vicariously through their children.
A. Each adolescent has the right to try something new and be themselves.
B. It is not fair for adolescents when they are not able to do something that they like.

II. The book Charlotte Temple is a perfect example of how parents tried to make their child perfect and she ends up in a bad situation.
A. In some cases it does not matter how hard you try to keep your kids the way you want them, they will act out and do what they want.
B. Charlotte’s parents raised her to be a prim and proper girl but in the end she ended up pregnant and dies.
C. Even though she was taken against her will she still flirted with Montraville and put herself in a bad place.
D. It does not matter how much you tell adolescents what to do they really need to experience and not be led onto live just like their parents did.
III. In today’s time it is happening more and more, with sports, academics, and even colleges and careers.
A. It is seen all the time when teenagers play football because their dad made them or all of their family was national wrestling champions.
B. Parents push children to go to college where they want them to go because it is their alma mater or they just like the school.
C. Toddlers in Tiaras is a show on TV where girls as young as two years old compete in beauty pageants. There is no way those little girls decided to do that themselves.
IV. Making anyone do what you want them to do makes them less of an individual and can make them unhappy.
A. Children and adolescents want to do what makes them happy not what is going to make everyone else happy.
B. It makes a lot of parents hypocrites when they say that their child has loved it for years when it is all they have know.