Why Kids Are Bad For Kids

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Have you ever said or don’t something you wish you could take back? Maybe you have thrown a party while your parents were away, and they came home early? Perhaps you called in sick from work to go out that same night and then saw your boss at the same place? Or maybe when you were young and were told not to throw the ball in the house but it anyway and broke something? In this situation as Leah Arendt said, “do not do what you would undo if caught.” Her message is very simple but powerful and it can range from simple things that children do to drastic things that adults do. For example, some regrets kids may have are saying mean/bad words, fighting with their siblings, and having temper tantrums. All of those misbehaviors may result in time-outs and/ or sometimes spankings. Children wouldn’t do the things they do if they knew what their punishment was. Those are some main regrets kids have. When children grow up, they become teenagers and they still make mistakes. But during a teenager’s life he or she will find that they come across a lot of regrets. Something that I personally wish I could undo when I was a teen was not putting school first. I worried too much about sports and hanging out with my friends on the weekends. As a result, I didn’t …show more content…

I had seen a story on social media that parents told their little girl to squeeze out toothpaste onto a plate and then put it all back in the tube exactly how it was before. So, the daughter tried that. The little girl tried but she said she just couldn’t do it. The child told her parents that she would if she could. She said she would undo squeezing it out in the first place knowing it would make this big of a mess. The mother told her daughter that, “just like toothpaste, once the words leave your mouth, you can’t take them back.” This is a very good example of something that can easily be said or done but cannot be taken

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