Voting at 18

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I may not be able to fight with you due to the lack of knowledge and experience regarding the laws and regulation. I cannot fight with you regarding the facts but with emotional thoughts. You’ve got to have at the very least, a common sense when you decide to minimize the age for the right to vote. You seem so protective when it comes to the youth below 18 years old because you thought they are spectacularly valuable in the future. You are trying to be a hero of saving the country strategically. They are young, wild and free. The entire cases or issues that become the header of newspaper (which is not frequently read by youth especially) mostly are from the children and younger teenagers. Most of teenagers are problematic these days as count by 0.8/10 approximately. Some people are not really problematic in that ugly way. Bad parenting is one of the factors that lead to rebellion. It is not that I am trying to put the blame on those families who come from low-middle class whom not able to give everything what their daughter and son’s want. Physiologically, some parents who come from low-middle class are smart enough to ensure their children get sufficient resources without cross over their capacity of support.

Most of them must be able to give the important requirement to their children such as education. Not all the parents are capable to pay for the education’s fees. Some of them might have had to borrow some money from others for the time being to buy the uniform school. Due to their low-middle incomes, some parents are clever enough to teach their children the meaning behind all of the poverty, how to live with them while making efforts to not making the poverty as excuses for not able to be successful. These are smart parents who give their children the reality condition of their life, not giving them fake hope, false expectation, that turns their dreams become nightmare. Children are young generation who still battling with their own inner will. Not all of them are able to differentiate between what are most important and less important. All their desires are wanted to be fulfilled regardless the situation they are living with. When the adults give explanation about life without emphasizing the reality is, fake hopes and dreams are started to grow in their mind and heart. They will think that this life is easy to make. Yeah, we have to be happy with all the matters happening in this life but now with false expectation. They will end up feeling disappointed and rebellious are the only way to get out. It is a very small phase but will give the biggest impact for the long term because it will effect their personality. They are growing up. Do you want them to live this life by pretending everything is falling on its place? Do you really want them to believe that dreams are building high in case they thought they have their chances to get what they wanted with the easy way? The small example ever, when they still small children, you promise them to buy they the new toys just to avoid them from throwing tantrum. While actually, you don’t have any enough money for that. The money you have only enough to support their education and food. Tell them the truth, the toys are not for life, or not even try to get them closed with the toys. They can play but tell them the truth; you are not capable to give them the toys. Tell them how much strict you are, that you wanted them for the good education. Tell them the truth; they should play with other children, running, laughing, sport, television except toys and gadget. Toys are only needed when they are still baby. In my not so important opinion, tell the truth may be the right way even though it’s extremely painful. Nobody wants to hear the truth as it will break someone’s heart but for the long term effect, someone will try to live with the truth and improve anything to get better. When they are teenagers, tell them the truth how much important education is without trying to be over-controlled all the things they wanted in their life. Teenagers, I have been once. The way you want to relieve their stress is when you are capable to balance their needs and desires. They need to study but they still are able to play anything usual they want. Teenagers don’t want to be control but as the parents, you have to try to get close with them so that they believe they still able to get the attention. What kind of attention? Love, caring, sharing, telling the truth to each other, deep conversation, tell them what’s to believe and what’s not but slowly. They don’t want to be forced to accept the truth. They need to understand it first before expecting something that not real.

And now, you are giving them the honor to vote at the age of 18 years old? Have you already prepared for the damage control? What about the fresh graduates who are struggling with transportation and rent house while going to work/intern? Is it because the scale is too big and we had to take care about ourselves alone in the mean time? At least, provide some preparation before the adult’s phase starts crawling into our life.

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