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      <title>Mindmap - One-sided Argumentative Essay by Ms. Jacqueline Wong</title>
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      <description>In Hong Kong, young people at the age of 18 are considered adults. Parents then lose
parenting rights and responsibilities towards their children. But some people believe
that children aged 16 should be treated as independent beings and should be free from
their parents’ control.
Write an essay to say whether you agree or disagree that p arents should have no control
over the lives of their children once they turn 16. Write your essay in about 220 words .
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      <pubDate>2021-03-01 11:43:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B32 Jacqueline Wong</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>...........<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>.......<br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>.......<strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <br>- <br>- </div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-01 11:44:48 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B30 Charles So</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance:</strong><br>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16.<br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence):</strong><br>Children that are aged 16 Common Errorndependent from their parents.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples:</strong><br>- Self-care is important as it is what makes us have a healthy scheduled routine with self-discipline, but getting controlled by parents doesn't help with self-care especially at the age of 16, it will only make you more dependent from parents and cannot live without them.<br>- Children who are dependent from their parents, cannot decide different options in life, they often need help from parents to handle every single problem they faced.<br>Some parents even monitor their children, and try to control their children's action, these parents are called the helicopter parents. They try to control their children by clearing all the obstacles their children need to face on the path and then control their children's action, this makes their children dependent and losing self-care, leading them not being able to solve problems in life.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence):</strong><br>In addition, children may have their mental health hurt as pressure is constantly adding on them. (parents' control?)<br><br><strong>Facts or examples:</strong><br>- Nowadays, some parents often need their children to learn many different skills while having perfect academic score. They forced their children and control their action, with no misbehaviour allow. These parents are called the tiger moms, they want their children to be a perfect human just to get a high salary job without asking what their children really wants. Their children need to behave well while having brilliant academic score and requiring different skills at the same time. Easy to imagine that their children's mental health is constantly hurt from the huge pressure. <strong><mark>According to the Mental Health Foundation, they have found that six out of ten of young people was overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed. (factor - pressure - origin - parents?) With them being stressed, their mental health is unhealthy as parents are controlling their children to be successful.</mark></strong><br>-<br>-<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence):</strong><br>Furthermore, children that aged 16 need to learn the responsibilities in life from being independent. <br><strong>Facts or examples:</strong><br>- With the parents controlling their children's action, their children will not know whether their action is correct, just like servants. They will never think or even oppose the command given by their parents. Psychologist Diana Baumrind described these Authoritarian Parenting as "obedience- and status-oriented, and expect their orders to be obeyed without explanation." Thus, when these children need to live only by themselves, they will not know their responsibility in their life about what they should do and what they should not, causing them to keep making mistakes and wrongdoings as they do not know it is their responsibilities not to do so. Therefore, Authoritarian Parenting will make them not able to identify which actions are appropriate.</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 08:31:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B31 Spencer Tam</title>
         <author>pyc18089</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>When children are 16, they should start to learn how to be independent by planning their own life.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- In fact, children know how to manage life themselves can learn how to solve problems they may face in the future. In contrast, if they are controlled by their parents after 16, they do not have experience of living alone, it may make them being more rely on their parents as children have lived in comfort zone for a long period.<br>- For example, parents should not force their children to join activities or course they do not want, this action may make them feel stressed. They should let children make their own decision to choose activities which they interested in and give them big support.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Besides, parents should give their children in freedom to choose their friends.<br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Parents let children find friends themselves is much better than parent help them to choose as this will help them how to communicate with others even in different races or gender. If parents do not give their children in freedom to choose friends, children cannot gain social skills and relations between parents and children will be worse as parents meddle too much. Also, parents will not know what kind of friends are suitable for children because only children know what they need in friendship.<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): </strong></div><pre><strong><em>Moreover, lots of children are under pressure from their parents.</em></strong></pre><div><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <strong><mark>Nowadays, there are many "tiger parents", they use authoritarian parenting methods to push and pressure their children, in order to attain high levels of academic achievement or success in high-status extra curricular activities such as music. </mark></strong><strong><em><mark>They want their children to become perfect (parents - perfect!! x ordinary - ideal - pressure - can't be flawed (no mistakes - don't want us fail - painful - have success - path to be smooth) </mark></em></strong><strong><mark> and give them huge pressure. No matter how hard their children works, they still cannot reach expectations of their parents as these expectations are too high.</mark></strong></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 08:37:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B07 Bethany Cheung</title>
         <author>pyc18027</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): </strong></div><pre><strong>Children need a transition period to really learn how to be responsible like an adult.</strong></pre><div><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- A teenager's life is always relax, they don't have much pressure and anxiety. However, an adult's life is more challenging and difficult.<br><strong><mark>- Despite the fact that adults need to be responsible for their actions, they also have the responsibility to take care of their family. They are stressful in facing  financial problems and even unemployment.<br>- It is difficult for a 'new born' adult to take all the responsibility. They may feel overwhelmed and frustrated. Some even will escape from the reality. </mark></strong><br><strong>-Therefore, it is important to give a 16 year-old child a time interval to adapt a new life of being an adult.<br></strong><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </strong></div><pre>Under the control of parents, children aren't able to develop independent thinking.</pre><div><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Independent thinking is very important to hone your personal skills on many levels, <strong><mark>including the building of confidence and character.</mark></strong> If a person isn't able to think independently, then he has a great chance to fall in scams as his alertness is low.<br><strong><mark>- A lack of independent thinking leads to the  appearance of mama's boy. A mama's boy needs to get his mum's approval for everything. It means that he has trouble to think for himself and make decisions on his own, based on what he truly wants.<br>- Children can't rely on their parents permanently. Their decisions can't be right all the time. Also, they will leave someday.  Therefore, children need to practice independent thinking.<br></mark></strong><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children don't have freedom and privacy under the control of 'helicopter parents'.<br><strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong><strong><mark>- Helicopter parents is a style of parents who are overly focused on their children. They just focus on children's grades and success but not provide them a good, comfortable condition to study.<br></mark></strong>- They control their child's life, including their friends, activities, interests and even their future careers. Some parents even check their child's phone at mid-night to confirm that they are doing 'well'.<br>- Their children had lost their rights to explore their interests and the world. They are just like marionettes controlled by their parents.</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 08:44:27 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B10 Ku On Chi Angie</title>
         <author>pyc18047</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): </strong></div><pre><strong>Children need to be independent when they reached 16, </strong><strong><mark>as they already have their own thoughts and the ability to make decisions on their own life.</mark></strong></pre><div><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <strong><mark>Giving children a freedom to think and make decisions is very important.</mark></strong> They have their dream, they have their style of working. <strong><em><mark>If  parents keep on controlling them on the path of life, then they will be on the way to the life which their parents wished, not the life they want to live. To the end, they will be the robots under their parents' control. (they do not own their own lives - authority)</mark></em></strong><br>- It's time for the children to start being responsible for their decisions, it's not only affects the result, but also affect their personality and attitude face to others. Parents nowadays planned everything for their children to in case that nothing bad will happen, it will make the children lack of the experience to face difficulties. Once they need to work outside and face difficulties without parents' help, they may choose to resist the problem, by blaming on their colleagues, make the relationship and impressions worse, then the path of their life will be full of  negative emotions. <br>- Parents always want their children to fly with wings in the future, pay efforts on everything to have a better future. If parents still controlling the children when they reached 16, it will be cause of why the children are lacking of creative and independent thinking, just like locking their wings to fly. It doesn't make sense.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </strong></div><pre><strong><mark>Mentally, controlling children may leads them to suffer from mental illness, even have the thought of suicide.</mark></strong></pre><div><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- It will <strong><mark>give a huge pressure</mark></strong> to the children,as the parents nowadays all wanted to make their children <strong><mark>have great academic achievements, or be outstanding on some skills</mark></strong>. These are may not the things the children want, but they are forced to archive, giving negative impacts on their mental health.<br>- Some of the parents may said they will give 'free time' for their children. What I have seen is, yes they will let their children to have a rest without homework and textbooks, but with the limitations they gave. Obviously, most of them are blocking the children to do what they want to do. E<strong><mark>ven at the time for rest, they still have no choice, rest with educational programmes, or practicing the piano with the songs they can choose, it that really giving them a time for a rest? Or, will they soon lose control because of lacking in the happiness of doing their own hobbies they like? My answer is definitely yes.</mark></strong><br>- Many of you may think that suicide is not common, but I would say that many 'future cases' are nearly to happen. Luckily, they will be saved by someone help to walk out the darkness. Unfortunately, thay will end their life on their own. Most of the cases, are caused by bad family relationships. Parents wish  their children to do in this way, but the children wish to do in another way but their parents prohibit them to do it. These quarrels are really common in our daily life, and grow the seed of 'A Children Fell Down From A Building'. Parents' power is bigger for sure, and they may use the power to make the children follow the way they planned. Soon, the children will choose to suicide, as they could only live under the the excuse of 'Listen what your parents said', no freedom, no choice. Then why not choose to end up this uneasy life?<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br>Children who reached </strong><strong><mark>16 have the rights to choose the way they want to live.</mark></strong><strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- ' It's not the best way to do this...' 'I believe that this will be better if you do this in this way...' 'None of your business!' I believe that all of you will say this when someone judge the way you choose to do. Isn't it annoying that when you already have the plan but someone is keep disturbing you? I believe that the parents which are still controlling their children, keep doing this to them everyday. I hope that the parents can think before they judge on their children, because they will feel the same when someone do the same thing. Give them a chance to do it alone, they may impress you in an unexpected way.<br>- Children are not your employees, as a parent you should support them to reach their dream. Different person have different likes and things they are good at. There's nothing bad if you let them do what they want, and I'm sure that it's more easily to success if they live in the way they like. Stop forcing them to keep on track that you want, let them shine on the stage of life they love.<br>- <strong><mark>Many people said 'Life is like a piece of drawing paper.' </mark></strong>It's their own paper and they have the power and choice to decide what should be like on the paper. It's ok if you give them guidance for future career, but not taking their brush away. It doesn't matter if the children's life is full of Joy or sadness. It's their own painting, it's the colour they shown themselves. It's priceless for a person's life, eventhough it's not perfect as the parents think.</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 09:54:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B14 Pun Ho Yan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance:<br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16.<br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence):<br></strong>Children under parent's over control which may cause the lack of independent thinking.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples:<br></strong>-Parents of severely defiant kids need to understand that, ultimately, they cannot control their child’s behavior. They can’t control whether or not their children behaves. <br><br><strong><mark>-'Tiger mom', 'mama bear' <br>- Italy - Mama's boy <br><br><br>and 'helicopter parents' are used to describe parents who pays extremely close attention to a child's or children's experiences and problems, particularly at educational institutions. They decide their children's extra curricular activities, the way they dress, the meal and even social interaction.<br></mark></strong><br>-For children to develop, especially aged 16, it is often necessary for them to fail and learn from their mistakes through trial and error. Unfortunately, helicopter parenting limits children’s ability to engage in this opportunity, and research suggests that it can stunt a child’s cognitive and emotional development.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence):<br></strong>Children at aged 16 need to learn how to care about and plan for the future themselves. <strong><br>Facts or examples:</strong> <strong><br></strong>-If parents never give up trying to control their children, their children will never know how to make decision.<br>-Parents may think all their decision are good for them. However, little do they know that all these lead to their children hard to join the social demands. An inter-generational research published in "The Gerontologist" observed educators and popular media lament helicopter parents who hover over their grown children, but reported "complex economic and social demands make it difficult for the Baby Boomers’ children to gain a foothold in adulthood."</div><div>-If children don’t know how to care about and plan for the future themselves, once their parents passed away, they no longer find somebody that is trustworthy. Then, they will be very panic.<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence):<br></strong><strong><em>Children need education from parents, such as learning how to respect others choices.<br></em></strong><strong><br>Facts or examples:<br></strong><strong><em>-The beginning is the need to educate parents at home to monitor them and their activities. Parents need to give early education to their children so that they can learn good things like respecting others, fears of older people, not wanting to do bad things. If parents do not care about this problem then the children will be neglected and continue to make mistakes.<br></em></strong>-However, if parents always make all decision, children may think that is necessary to make all decision and became a dictator which nobody likes.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 11:42:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B22 Yuki Zhen</title>
         <author>pyc18119</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: <br>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): </strong><br>On the age of 16, children need to try things by themselves to learn how to be independent. <br><br><strong>Facts or examples: </strong><br>- <strong><mark>Nowadays, children depend on their parents too much , for example, some of them do not know how to cook, tidy up, or even tie shoelaces etc.<br>- Parents always control children, account that they cannot do things well <br>- But actually they need to try to be independent in this age.This ensures that they can take care of themselves  when there are no parents nearby</mark></strong>.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </strong><br>Apart from this, children have their own decisions when they turn 16. They will be annoyed and under pressure if their parents always control their lives.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: </strong><br>- Many children think that their parents manage them too much. They can’t choose what they want or like.<br>- Some of the children even quarrel with their parents because they don’t have enough freedom.<br>- Gradually, the relationship between children and parents become bad. Also the children will be depressed.<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): </strong><br>Additionally, children already have their own thoughts and interest when they are 16. <br><br><strong>Facts or examples: </strong><br>-<strong><mark> A 16-years old girl, Amy, said that she really love drawing, she wants to learn it and be a excellent artist when she grow up.<br>-  However, her mum thought drawing isn’t a great job for Amy. She wants Amy to study harder but not pay extra time for these ‘ unsuitable things’.<br>- Amy thought her mum is so strict. She planned all things for Amy and don’t let she to decide.<br>- Although Amy’s mum is for Amy‘s own good, they should discuss with each other and express their own opinion</mark></strong></div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 12:28:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B29 Sam</title>
         <author>pyc17083</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>As children growing up, their mind and mental age will getting older and older. Interface from parents will strongly affect the growing of children. <br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>As teenagers begin puberty, they are changing from a kid to an adult. They will find their self-image, which independence is also included inside. They will think like an adult, act like an adult. The difference between adult and children, is adult can be independent but children can’t. A over disruption will affect the self-image of the teenagers. Once parents keep controlling their children. They may rely their parents even if they become an adult so I think parents shouldn’t control their children once they become 16 as they started to have their own idea and decision.<br> <br> <br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </strong></div><pre>Teenagers need time to accommodate themselves to the new surroundings. </pre><div><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong><strong><mark>Normally, teenagers will step into society once they turn into an adult. In fact , society is more cruel than school life, teenagers have to face different problems that they have never met before, such as a more complicated interpersonal relationship. And most of them are can’t solved by a teenager that just stepped into society. Many teenagers may have mood disorders because they can’t face well what they are facing, so I deem that parents shouldn’t their children as they once turn 16, they need a transition period to solve and face what they will face in the future. <br></mark></strong><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): </strong></div><pre>Authoritarian Parenting=not letting children grow up</pre><div><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong><strong><em>In this style of parenting, children are expected to follow the strict rules established by the parents. Failure to follow such rules usually results in punishment. While these parents have high demands, they are not very responsive to their children. They expect their children to behave exceptionally and not make errors, yet they provide very little direction about what their children should do or avoid in the future. Mistakes are punished, often quite harshly, yet their children are often left wondering exactly what they did wrong. According a study conducted by psychologist Diana Baumrind, children raised by this type of parents are very likely to be emotionally anxious, </em></strong></div><div>autism, unhappy, and have a sense of inferiority. They are lack of social skills, getting hostile and frustration easily. Parents shouldn't always limit what can their children do, give more decision, and this is related to the topic: parents should have no control once they 16, so that they can be independent, won't have any confusion about their future.</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 13:06:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B23 Chan Long Hin</title>
         <author>pyc18009</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1263490472</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): </strong>First, children who are 16 already have their own interests and hobbies and parents should respect to them.<strong><br><br>Facts or examples: <br>-</strong>Some parents will help children to decide to join any extra curricular activities. <br>-However, children may not like those activities because they have somethings that they like to do or not. When they are on the age of 16, they have the ability to choose their activities by themselves.<br>according to their own interests. <br>-If parents force children to join the activities they do not like, this may backfire on the children as they may hate that activities  ever after.<strong><br></strong><br> <strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </strong><br>Children should have self-care ability during or before the age of 16.<strong><br></strong><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br>-Some parents prepared all the meals, decide all the dressing, and solve all the problems for their children.<br></strong><strong><em><mark>-For example, a child thinks an apple is white because his mom always peel the skin of apples for him. <br></mark></em></strong>-In fact, the children don't have any self-care ability. Therefore when they grow up, they can't take care of themselves and always need other people's helps. At the same time, people will laugh at and make fun with these 16 years old children.<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>The relationship between children and their parents may get worse <strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <br>- <br>- </div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 13:08:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B11 Rachel Lau</title>
         <author>pyc18057</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>Over manipulation by parents will lead having lack of opinion and self confidence.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Nowadays, some of the parents such as ‘tiger mum’ will control their children in all aspects such as the friends they meet and the clothes they wear outdoor. Also, their chances of developing their interests are limited. They are not able to express their points of view. They cannot say ‘no’ to their parents and soon, they will lost their independent thinking and just follow their parent’s thoughts.<br>-<strong><em><mark> Since their thoughts are always rejected by their parents, they usually have low self confidence and afraid to express themselves. This leads to poor communication and interpersonal skills. </mark></em></strong>Furthermore, having low self-esteem is a disadvantage when they start working in the society.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children who aged 16 need to be responsible for their own behaviour and make decisions themselves.<strong><br></strong><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong><strong><mark>- For example, if parents over protect their children, they may not realise that they have to be responsible for their behaviours. Children may do whatever they like without considering the consequences and lead to serious outcomes.This will hinder their growth and development in the future</mark></strong><strong>.</strong><br>- <em>Furthermore, 16-year-old children are mature enough, they should have the ability to think of what they want to do in the future without parent’s control. Their thoughts should not be influenced by their parents.</em><br>- <br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children will learn how to strike a balance between freedom and their responsibility which in turn make them to be more mature.<br><strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Once parents allow their children to go ahead according to their free will, they may encounter many difficulties in their future life. However, this is a good chance for them to become a more mature person by learning how to overcome the difficulties. No matter the outcomes are good or bad, they need to bear the full responsibilities of their choices.<br>- Freedom always come with responsibility. There are no free risk choices in the world. However, children can learn how to analyze the pros and cons in order to make the best choice and have no regret. This can broaden their horizon.<br><br></div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 13:21:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B25 Wayne Chan</title>
         <author>pyc18014</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br>Teenagers at age 16 should have their self-thinking and should have their freedom to choose what he want to do in the future.</strong><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Teenagers in 16 should have <strong>their self-thinking and should have their freedom to choose what he want to do in the future.If they did, they will have many opportunities to experience to make their own decisions and to learn if they have a wrong pick at that time.If a teenagers being control over by their parents and lost the rights to choose when they are still a teenagers,they will not have experienced to decide something,when they become an adult and start to become part of society,they won't know how to make correct decisions and may cause mistakes that will make them regrets.And giving them rights to choose is how to lead them to have their self thinking.</strong><br><strong><mark>- Besides,if the teenagers failed to make a great decision when they grown up,their self-confidence will decrease and will not know how to make up for their own mistakes and failed many times.This may cause a vicious circle and their self-confidence will be very low afterwards of many wrong decisions.</mark></strong><br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br>Teenagers at age 16 should start to learn how to take care themselves and to learn </strong>how to self- discipline by being independence.<br><br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Self-discipline is a very important part of adults when the grown up.If the teenagers start being independence,they will have time and opportunities to learn how to control themselves and to learn about how to take care of themselves when they grown up and when they were alone.If teenagers being control over by their parents and did not have opportunities to learn,they will become strongly rely on their parents.This will leads to the problems of self-discipline and self-care.They will not fit in the society if they don't have these two skills because the people in social life will not accept a person with no self-discipline and do not know how to take care of themselves.<br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br>Teenagers at age 16 should have their self-understanding and self-confidence to create their own identity to make themselves special<br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Self-understanding is also a important part of being an adults.Self-understanding will make them to know their strengths,their weakness and their potential at everything of their lives(examples:Academic subject,sports,personality etc).Also,self-confidence is important because they can let the strengths and potential of people to release.These two things will make teenagers start to get improvement and become a better people.If they are being control over by their parents and do not have opportunities to learn these two things, they will not have improvement because they do not even know what they are good or bad in and they don't know where their potentials are.</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 13:23:08 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B09 Fong Wei Abby</title>
         <author>pyc18038</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1263616374</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance:</strong></div><div>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16.<br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence):</strong></div><div>During the age of 16, children will start to think independently and want others, such as their parents, to treat them as adults.</div><div><br><strong>Facts or examples:<br></strong>- Teenagers desire to be independent, they want act what they think and be unique.<br>- They are confident enough and have the ability to solve problems by themselves.<br><strong><mark>- They also eager their ideas to be recognized and sometimes refused the ideas from their parents.<br></mark></strong><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic sentence):</strong></div><div>Also, teenagers need to have their own private space, spare time to socialize and time to do something they like.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples:<br></strong><strong><mark>- At the stage of age 16, teenagers will prefer staying in their own room to have some private space and time.<br>- They would like to hang out with friends, talking on the phone with them and message them.<br>- When they are hanging out with their friends, they may be unwilling to explain their whereabouts to their parents since they want to be as free as adults.</mark></strong><br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic sentence):</strong></div><pre><strong><mark>Moreover, being a teenager is also being in a transition period between children to adults, so teenagers is time to find themselves and learn how to be an adult.</mark></strong></pre><div><br><strong>Facts or examples:<br></strong><strong><mark>- An interview shows that if we ask teenagers what they want in the future, majority of they tend to only know how to answer what they don’t what in the future, but only very few of them have a firm direction plus know exactly what kind of person they want to be.<br>- To find the own identity, they can try to expose themselves to different roles as much as possible to experience more things.<br>- They should make their own choice to try new things, they can even read more books, daydream and chat more about the future with their own friends to find their own identity.</mark></strong></div>]]></description>
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         <title>3B12 Joyce Lee</title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1263649110</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: <br>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br>16 year olds should learn<br>to choose for their own and take responsibilities for their decisions.<br><br>Facts or examples: <br>Under parents' control, teenagers hardly have any chances to make their own decisions, nor to take responsibility on what choices they have made.<br>As a result, these teenagers might feel unsure and lack confidence when it comes to making even more essential choices in the society.<br><strong><mark>- On the news, an ordinary office worker who was once a top student claimed that he did not have any ideas about planning his life when he was young, due to the fact that his parents helped him on all these during his teenage years. He also said he regretted so much on his choices back then, he might have had a better future with those satisfactory grades.<br></mark></strong>- <br><br>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br>Teenagers aged 16 should start to learn some basic life skills.<br><br>Facts or examples: <br>A lot of daily activities of these teenagers have been highly controlled by their parents. Therefore, they  do not have a chance to learn these basic life skills, which are necessary for their future lives. These teenagers will then fail to take care of themselves when living independently.<br>- Some overprotective parents refuse to let teenagers cook, as they assume that it is unsafe for them to do so. Thence, these teenagers lack the skill of cooking, which will greatly affect their lifestyle later on.<br>-<br><br>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): </div><pre><strong>Parents' control on 16 year olds will worsen their parent-child relationship.</strong></pre><div><br>Facts or examples:<br>Teenagers aged 16 usually seek control on their lives. They do not want want parents to restrict their freedom. This leads to conflicts between the child and the parent, who thinks teenagers are not mature enough to do so.<br><strong><mark>-In a survey, about 28% of teenagers have daily conflicts with their parents. One of the interviewed teenagers Mary, claimed that she and her parents often argue about the rights of parents to monitor their child's phone. She also said that their relationship have been worsening due to this incident.<br></mark></strong>-</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 13:41:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B05 Eva Cheng</title>
         <author>pyc18023</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1263652832</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance:</strong><br>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>When<strong> </strong>children are 16, they should start to learn how to make decision and be responsible for their own life.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <strong><mark>When children reach 18 years old and many of them graduate from secondary school, they have to make a important decision,  Whether it’s university selection or work, they all need to make important decision for their own life. </mark></strong>Therefore, it is necessary for them to start to learn how to make decision and take responsibility for their choices.<br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children in 16 have their self-contained thinking .<br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>.......<strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <br>- <br>- </div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 13:42:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B08 Chiang Cheuk Yee</title>
         <author>pyc18028</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1263721872</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br>- </strong>Teenagers should have the ability to take care of themselves and think independently by the age of 16。<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- At the age of 16, teenagers should already learn to take care of their daily lives. Only when they have enough freedom, they can try to do different things on their own. If parents  keep restrict their children's decisions , children will not have the opportunity to learn and try.<br>-  Self-management without anyone's guidance is an important basic ability in life. Teenagers at this age have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Parents control their children’s decisions and thinking, which restricts their children’s growth, making them seem like a child who will never grow up.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br>-</strong>Teenagers have a lot of pressure under the control of their parents.<br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong><strong><mark>- Sixteen is a very sensitive age because teenagers are going through puberty. At this age, they start to think that they are adults, and adults can decide their lives. If they are under the control of their parents and have no chance to make their own choices, they will feel that they are being restrained.<br></mark></strong>- Too much stress may cause emotional problems or even mood disorders.Parents should help their children according to their personalities. Also, parents should give them enough private space and freedom instead of controlling them.<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br>- Excessive control of children may worsen the relationship between them<br><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- At the age of 16, teenagers desire private space. When their parents do not give them freedom and even control their lives, they will hate the behavior of their parents, which may make their relationship worse.<br>-  For example, if parents do not give their children the opportunity to express their thoughts, but just insist on their behavior ignorantly, the relationship between them may also deteriorate.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 13:55:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B18 Stepney Tang</title>
         <author>pyc18091</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1263931084</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>Children should receive independence from their parents. <br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong><strong><mark>- As many parents are worried about if they give too much independence to their children, they might do something wrong and risky or even go astray. </mark></strong>However, children need to make some mistakes to have life’s lessons and gain more life experiences. From those past experience, they could learn which is right and which is wrong. <br>- As children cannot depend on their parents for their whole lives, they need to learn to be independent. <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children should learn to be responsible for themselves. <br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- When children did a great job, they deserve the praise from others. Similarly, when they did something wrong or break the rules, they should be punished accordingly. Parents cannot be by their children every moment and pick up their slack. They need to be responsible for every action that they make.<br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children who aged 16 have sufficient self-care ability and a sense of safety crisis awareness. <strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- When children get into secondary school, they usually go to school by themselves, having lunch at outside and they learn cooking in Home Economics lessons etc. They can take care of themselves instead of relying on their parents, even they can help with the housework. <br>- Besides, the school will arrange different lectures on safety crisis awareness in order to educate, develop and improve their knowledge of this aspect from an early age. For example, they know how to deal with emergencies like treating wounds and seeking help from adults. They know how to protect themselves.<br>- </div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 14:30:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B19 Vinci Wong </title>
         <author></author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1264105292</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: </div><div>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. </div><div><br></div><div>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): </div><div>Children who are aged 16 have to learn how to take care themselves by being independent from without their parents’s help.  </div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- By the age of 16, self-care is important because young people are getting older and their minds are mature, so they can't rely too much on their families to take care of themselves.</div><div>- Moreover, families have to work to earn money, they do not have the time and energy to take care of their children, so self-care is an important part of becoming independent people.</div><div><br></div><div>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </div><pre>Teenagers need to have their own private space, socialise in their spare time and spend time doing what they like.</pre><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- <strong><mark>At the age of 16, teenagers prefer to stay in their rooms with some private space and time. They want to go out with their friends, call them and text them. When they go out with friends, they may be reluctant to explain their whereabouts to their parents because they imagine adults as free as they are.</mark></strong></div><div><br></div><div>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): </div><div>Under the control of parents, children are unable to develop the ability to think and choose independently.</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- Depending on the parents' children, it is difficult for them to decide on different choices in their life, so they need the help of their parents to deal with every problem they face. As a result, they will lose the ability to make their own decisions.</div><div>- Some parents, known as helicopter parents, even monitor their children and try to control their children's behaviour. They also try to control their children by removing all the obstacles they face on the road, and then control their children's actions, which make their children dependent and lose self-care, leaving them unable to solve life's problems.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 14:58:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B20</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1264132666</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: </div><div>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. </div><div><br></div><div>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): </div><div>When they are 16 years old, they should learn to take care of themselves</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- When they are 16 years old, they can already decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong, and parents should no longer control their thoughts</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </div><div>Parents' over-care will only harm the children</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- Children will only grow up when they encounter difficulties, gain and gain. Parents shouldn't be overly pampering. When children are facing difficulties, parents and teachers do not help, but instead look on. Because this is a training, practice children's logic and use their brains to overcome difficulties and solve problems. If the child's homework and daily self-care are all done by the elders, the child will not know the priority order and management of the work.</div><div><br></div><div>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): </div><div>.......</div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- </div><div>- </div><div>- </div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 15:03:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B02 Cynthia Chan</title>
         <author>pyc18010</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1264134734</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>A 16-year-old teen is mature enough to plan their lives themselves.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- when children reach 16, they have their own thoughts and they can make decisions for themselves. That may be a mistaken choice, but they have to learn that they have the duty to face their mistake and ameliorate it. <br><strong><em><mark>- Kelly is one of the example, she is only 16 but she clearly knows what she wants to do in the future. She wants to be a English teacher so she studied English tirelessly. Besides, she has already planned to study the subject “english literature” in university. <br>- Though Kelly’s case, we can see 16-year-old children is mature enough to have their own plan for their life. They do not need their parents to make choices foe them anymore. </mark></em></strong><br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </strong></div><pre>children who have reached 16 have to get use to the life without parents.</pre><div><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- At one point of someday, children will fly the nest and live alone. they have to face all the problems ourselves. No one will help them like their parents used to do. <br><mark>- </mark><strong><em><mark>When they get a job, they may make some mistake ,such as, doing the wrong work, being late to work... At that time, they have to be responsible to all their faults and solve the problems themselves. Moreover, they may get into troubles when they entre the workforce, such as  coming across scams. they have to report that to the police ourselves and take upon oneself the consequences.<br></mark></em></strong><strong><em>- Therefore, if parents don’t let their children’s to get used to face their problems themselves, they will not be able to bear the consequences。</em></strong></div><div><br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>some parents may say their children are inexperienced and need help but we have to make tries ourselves to gain experiences. </div><div><br></div><div><strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- “helicopter parents” are parents who pays extremely close attention to their children's experiences and problems. They over protect their children. This may cause the lack of simple life skills. Also, helicopter parents cares the results of their children so much. This may be a kind of stress to the children. </div><div><br></div><div><br>- no pain, no gain. We have to try to be independent to gain more experience. Although we may fall, we can learn something from it. <br>- Tom’s parents are “helicopter parents”. His parents help him finish things that Tom must do himself, such as tying shoelaces, tiding bedroom. Also, he doesn’t have any cooking skills because his parents think that cooking is too dangerous for him.  On the other hand, Tom’ parents has joined a lot of tutorial lessons for Tom since they care Tom’s result. Tom’s head is about to explode because of his parents’ demand of his result.</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 15:03:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B17 Tang Cheuk Yin</title>
         <author>pyc18090</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1264214226</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: </div><div>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. </div><div><br></div><div>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): </div><div>When children in 16,they need to learn to make decisions by themselves ,without parents’ help.So they will be more independent.</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- Children make their own decisions,if the decision is right, children will become more independent, if it is wrong,this will help them learn life’s lessons and continue to shape his brain’s development.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): </div><div>When parents control children,they can’t form their own identity.</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- parents make decisions for their children, it makes them don’t know what they really want to do</div><div>- some parents let their children to learn different things:, for example,playing piano, swimming,singing etc. But the children actually not really interested in it , therefore they can’t find their own interest and identity.</div><div><br></div><div>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): </div><div>Children have their own thoughts and do what they want to do.</div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- children nowadays have high education level so they have ability of thinking, so they have their own thoughts and ideas.</div><div>- for example, they can chose friends, interest,activities, etc.</div><div>-parents no need to worry about their children , because they have their thoughts to do what they want to do.</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 15:16:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B27 Thomas</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1264223753</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: <br>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their once they turn 16 <br><br>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br>Children who are 16 should be able to do whatever they want without being controlled by their parents. <br><br>Facts or examples: <br>-Children have their own interests and things they want to do. Parents should support and give advises to them.<br>-Most parents think that planning their kids' timetable is better for them. However, their kids may not like them. They may feel depressed if they cannot do things they want to do, such as hanging out with friends. In the long term, this may even effect their mental health.<br><br>Argument 2 (Topic sentence):<br>Children who are 16 should have the ability to solve problems themselves.<br><br>Facts or examples:<br>-Children nowadays rely too much on their parents. Most of them do not have self-care ability. When they grow up and start to work in the society, they may not be able to solve basic problems as they were always helped when they are young.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 15:18:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B24 Jason Chan</title>
         <author>pyc18011</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1264341055</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: <br>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br><strong><mark>When children arrive the age 16, they are able to identify the correctness. (discern what is right and what is wrong - discernment)<br></mark></strong><br>Facts or examples: </div><div><strong><mark>- Teenagers in the age of 16, they normally know what they are doing and they know how to identify whats correct and what isn't. - If teenagers have problems, they have the ability to solve the problems</mark></strong></div><div><strong><mark>- The teenagers at 16 know about what's correct, so if they did something bad, thats their decision.<br></mark></strong><br>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br>If teenagers arrive the age of 16, they should learn how to do things and seperate the time well<br><br>Facts or examples: <br>- The teenagers in 16 need to learn about how to do some simple things like cooking and washing clothes. If parents still help them do all the things, the won't know how to do that forever.<br>- The teenagers in 16 also need how to seperate their time well. If parents help them seperate the time, when they grow up, their time  management will be poor.<br>-<br><br>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br>At last, the teenager in 16 should have the choice of their future career and life.<br>Facts or examples: <br>- the teenagers in 16 should plan about their future life, if the parents still control them, they will not know what they can do after grow up.<br>- teenagers in 16 years old are big enough to plan their future career by themselves. If parents control them and force them to go on a life which they don't want to, argues may happen in the family<br>- </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 15:37:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B21 Vanessa Yan</title>
         <author>pyc18115</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1264345533</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>Children have the responsibility to take care of themselves and manage their lives when they reach 16.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- After children become adults, they will work in the society but without any help, so they have to be independent to take care of their own lives.<br>- Parents will not always be there to help them make decisions or solve problems so they must start learning to be independent.<br>- Being independent is important as it promotes confidence and self-esteem to children, and this helps when they become adults as they will face many difficult works or unpredictable problems.<br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Moreover, at the age of 16, children are mature enough to make their own decisions.<br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong><strong><mark>- Nowadays, children are well-informed about social issues by using social media so they are more knowledgeable than early people, therefore, they are able to make their own decisions with their thoughts.<br></mark></strong><strong>- At the age of 16, children are mature enough to think rationally and logically on almost every effect of their choices.<br></strong>- They also have been educated since their kindergarten and they have gained enough knowledge and experiences to make several decisions.<br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>‘Helicopter parents’ will make children over-reliance and do not know how to take care of their own lives.<br><strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Some parents strongly believe that what their children do today will causing a huge impact on their future, so they try to control their lives and become ‘helicopter parents’<br>- However, excessive control to their children’s lives may lead to their over-reliance and causing them to develop low self-confidence.<br>- When they become adults, they may doubt their own abilities because they have never known anything about their own life.</div>]]></description>
         <pubDate>2021-03-03 15:38:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B26 Andy Lee</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>Children in age 16 should learn the responsibilities and rights to be an adult<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>-Sixteen years old is still in a period of adolescence, but there are only two years left to eighteen years old. Some of teenagers still think they are kids instead of being mature. As a result, teenagers should start learning the responsibilities of adults. Such as contribute to the society and bear legal consequences that everyone has to learn and face it. The aim to ensure that teenagers have to understand the conditions of themselves clearly which means they are not children anymore. <br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children in age 16 should be independent instead of taking care by their parents<br><em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- It is important that a human to have independence ability. However, many helicopter parents over-care their children too much. They plan for their children everything instead the children plan the schedule by their own. This leads the children always depend on their parents. When there is a problem, some teenagers do not know how to solve the problem as their parent cannot help them. A helpless condition occurred. This phenomenon shows some teenagers rely their parents seriously. Therefore, they should learn to solve problems by their own without parents’ help. Otherwise, they cannot survive in the society now days.<br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children in age 16 should learn the ability of self-care.<strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- When teenagers become an adult, they no longer to live with their parents which means they are going to live alone of partner. Many things have to do by their own to maintain their lives. Such as housework, washing dishes or clothes and sweep the floor and preparing the meal are the common housework. it is impossible that your parents help you to finished all the things. As a result, teenagers should learn to take care themselves as to take care others. Teenagers will know how to take care of others and their own.<br>- <br>- </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-03 17:01:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B03 Chan Tsz Yau</title>
         <author>3B03</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1266530076</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Stance: </div><div>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. </div><div><br></div><div>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): When a child is 16 years old, he should start learning to be independent.</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- 16-year-old children already has a strong sense of self, they need to learn to make their own decisions and get rid of the help of their parents</div><div>- such as helicopter parent, which means being involved in a child's life in a way that is overcontrolling, overprotecting, and overperfecting, in a way that is in excess of responsible parenting.</div><div>- It may decreases children’s confidence and self-esteem. The underlying message over-involvement sends to kids is 'my parent doesn't trust me to do this on my own. This, in turn, leads to a lack of confidence.</div><div><br></div><div>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): At the same time, 16-year-old teenagers usually have a rebellious mentality. Parents should relax control and let them have their own lives.</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- Engaged parenting has many benefits for a child, such as feelings of love and acceptance, better self-confidence, and opportunities to grow</div><div>- Failure and challenges teach kids new skills, and, most importantly, teach kids that they can handle failure and challenges.</div><div>- If the parent is always there to clean up a child's mess, how does the child ever learn to cope with loss, disappointment, or failure? Studies have found that helicopter parenting can make children feel less competent in dealing with the stresses of life on their own.</div><div><br></div><div>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): 16-year-old children have the mind of an adult and should be treated as an adult</div><div><br></div><div>Facts or examples: </div><div>- helicopter parent, which means children’s parents would hover over them like a helicopter.</div><div>- The main problem with helicopter parenting is that it backfires. The underlying message [the parent's] over-involvement sends to kids is 'my parent doesn't trust me to do this on my own.'This, in turn, leads to a lack of confidence.<br>-A study from the University of Mary Washington has shown that over-parenting is associated with higher levels of child anxiety and depression.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-04 00:12:20 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3B15 Su Tsz Ying Stephanie</title>
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         <link>https://padlet.com/wjgk/922hql6847ee92t/wish/1268407105</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div><strong>Stance: <br></strong>I strongly agree that parents should have no control over the lives of their children once they turn 16. <br><br><strong>Argument 1 (Topic sentence): <br></strong>Children<strong> </strong>who are 16 are already mature enough to do what they want to do and make decisions by themselves.<br><br><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- By allowing children to have input in some of the minor decisions, they can begin to feel important and gain confidence in their abilities to do so. After they go on to the society they don't have others to help them to decide something. Parents should not feel ridiculous when their children have their own decision, they should listen to them and help them to enhance their self-esteem but not hinder them.<br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 2 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>Children who are 16 should be able to solve problems by themselves.<em><br></em><strong>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- Children should have the self-care ability as they need to solve problems by themselves when they need to work. Parents should not always help their children to solve all the problems every time as children nowadays rely too much on their parents.<br>- <br>- <br><br><strong>Argument 3 (Topic Sentence): <br></strong>.......<strong><br>Facts or examples: <br></strong>- <br>- <br>- </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2021-03-04 11:24:16 UTC</pubDate>
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