Book Reading # 40 - Coming of Age in Samoa

Chapter 14 : Education for Choice

Summary
This chapter talks about the things that one can learn from the Samoan lifestyle. Mead talks about the many choices adolescents have to deal with, and the key factors that lead them to act the way they do. She describes that the parents are the ones that decide how to educate their kids. She mentions that parents should educate their children to make good decisions to face all the different choices that will be presented to them.
Discussion
I agree to some extent with the belief that parents should give some freedom to their children to make decision, but not in their early adolescent years. I like the idea that parents should lead children to make their choices because that is the only way children will actually learn by making their own mistakes.