Rebellion for teenagers can prove to be either a good thing or a bad one. People argue that teenagers need to rebel in order to grow up because, for example, they need to experience things in order to know what is right and wrong. However on the contrary people argue that teenagers do not need to rebel in order grow up because, for example, they should keep to rules in order to understand how to follow rules that are much more important in the future. However rebellion can cause more damage than good. Rebellion invites new, radical ideas which can be good, but a window can be opened for bad ideas to be introduced. So rebellion has a large spectrum stretching from small rebellions in the house to …show more content…
This could be the case because if their parents do not have distorted ideas then the teenager would be raised in a suitable environment. If the teen does not rebel he/she would never be in a situation that includes any harm or negative impacts in the future, for example smoking. If they didn’t rebel then they would never need to be told twice to clean their room and so no punishments are …show more content…
Sometimes teenager’s naivety can be seen in many cases where they do not know what idea they are rebelling for. This could be seen in the London riots seen early last year. Everything was sparked by the murder of a boy by a police officer. The riots were at first in revenge for the death but as the riots continued, other people began to join in without knowing what they were rioting for. Streets and buildings were being vandalised and people were too afraid to go out in the city due to the aggressiveness of the riot. The cost for the damage was very large and it was mostly due to the naivety of the generation unable to understand what they were trying to achieve. The whole point of the riot was in revenge for the death of that man who was killed by a police officer and in protest for equality between police officers and citizens however that idea was lost in the whole process as people were carried away. If that ‘younger generation’ had not rebelled in the first place, situations like this would have not