Makes About As Much Sense

There are some thing a parent just has to decide for the kid, because the parent knows what's best.

Take "Just get through confirmation and you can decide for yourself if you want to go to church..." for example.

To me it makes about as much sense as:

1. "Just get your measles, mumps and rubella shots as a baby and from then on you can decide for yourself if you want to have any more shots"

or

2. "Just go to school through your 16th birthday and you can decide for yourself if you want to go to school"

or

3."Just get through your drivers ed. instruction and you can decide for yourself if you want to drive safely"

Yeah, there are some things a parent just must decide based on what they know to be best for the child.

By the way, the judgment center of a young person's brain - the pre frontal cortex - isn't fully wired up until about 25... the same year the car insurance rates go down.

Coincidence? No. So, who should be making the decisions that matter for the 16 year old? According to Barbara Strauch, science editor of Time: "Sometimes you (the parent) just have to be the pre frontal cortex for your kid's brain."

Bingo.