“ I need to get to practice!” A student complained to his mom over the phone, “ I am going to miss it! Where are you?” What would a person do if he or she was unable to play a sport due to the parents’ inability to drive him or her to practices or games? Who would want to be that person? Students with licenses at the age of sixteen should have the ability to drive because it allows teenagers to mature faster while learning how to drive, and also allows teenagers to learn responsibility. Learning to drive when a person is sixteen can stand as a highly maturing experience. Maturity, meaning learning how to deal with everyday life, learning how to overcome temptations, and also learning carefulness. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety states, “ Immaturity leads to risky decisions.” According to the IIHS, teenage drivers have crash rates three times the amount of drivers over twenty. Sixteen year old drivers are also able to gain their parent’s …show more content…
Taking responsibility for a car can stand as a preparing involvement that can teach a teenager to take care of his or her own safety as well as others’.While some parents believe that children should have the ability to take responsibility, others believe that children should not be rushed into their own lives, but carried step by step. Jean Piaget said, “It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.” Children have the best chance of developing, and changing. If children are not given the chance to grow up, they will not. But if children are allowed or taught to develop, they will and they can. Showing a child that you trust him or her will also show that it is alright to grow up. Learning responsibility will help children with their future, responsibility is what can help a person obtain a