expository essay

Learning Lessons
Will children ever learn their lessons? Some children learn the easy way and others learn the hard way. Depending on the person is whether or not they will learn a lesson. My mom always told me that, “with everything I go through in the end there will be either a blessing or a lesson.” I started to take that under effect at an early age and realized that at the end of a situation you won’t get both a blessing and a lesson that you will get either or and what you do will affect the outcome. Children now days learn lessons from their parent’s mistakes, their own experiences or, spoken advice, all of which are good ways to learn but me personally I learn from my own experiences.
To begin, learning a lesson from your parents is as simple as it sounds. When you sit down with your parent asking them a question and they tell you what they went through in that situation. For example if you go to you parent and tell them you are having relationship problems, most parents can relate and will tell you that whatever you’re going through isn’t worth going through at all and that you shouldn’t sit around and deal with what you’re dealing with. You should then take the advice and do what your parent says. I feel if your parents take the time to tell you something that they care about you and you should listen and not want the same mistake they made when they were your age. I can only learn a lesson like that if my mom’s story was really sad and I don’t want to feel the pain she felt when she went through the situation, but I like to experience things on my own. Children now don’t have the opportunity to learn that way because their afraid to talk to their parents or because their parents aren’t around to even notice that their child is going through something.
Secondly, learning from your own experiences is when you are doing something you make a mistake and say to yourself okay that was wrong and I don’t want to experience that again. For example if you have a biology test and you don’t study because you don’t think you need to, if you end up failing the test then now you know you need to study for your test next time. Personally I love learning things on my own because if I don’t know what something feels like then I can’t say whether or not I felt a certain type of way or even give advice to someone who might need help in a similar situation. A lot of people learn this way sometimes it’s the only way they can because they have no one older to tell them different or simply because they are to hard head to listen.
Furthermore, learning from spoken advice is very different from the other two examples of learning lessons, when getting spoken advise you have to be open to telling your problem and listening to someone else’s opinion whether you agree, disagree or of if their wrong or right. Spoken advise comes from a person who you tell something and you need help you could be at your wits end and don’t know what else to do in a situation and there is that one person who knows you best or knows yours situation best who will tell you everything you need to know. Such as if you mom dies, your car starts acting up, you lose your job and everything just seems to be going wrong and you don’t know what to do. Going to someone and talking and getting their advice is all spoken advice is. A lot of kids now I think learn lessons this way because they spend most of their time around their friends and those are the people they feel most comfortable talking to and those are the people who know them the best.
To conclude, I believe children learn mostly from spoken advice because that’s the only way they can get advice, because their parents are never around or don’t care enough, and they are with their friends and people other than family so much that it’s the only way then can learn lessons. Personally I learn my lesson from my own experiences only because that’s the only way I can understand what the outcome will be and that’s the only way it will have an impact on my life. I like to make my own mistakes so I know how it feels in the end whether the outcome is good or bad. Always keeping in mind that at the end of every situation there will be a blessing or a lesson, and you will never get both. I keep my head held high and keep pushing forward because no one is perfect and there will always be something to go through.