There is often a lot of conflict when discussing the idea of ​​whether children should always listen to their parents. Of course, there are some things that parents with simply more common sense, wisdom, and foresight know better than young, inexperienced, and foolish children. But with everything in life, there is a line. Just as parents know, eating too much candy will give a person a stomach ache. But kids often realize that the best way to keep people interested is to make it new and trendy. So, certainly, there are some reasons why children should not listen to their parents, as shown by Romeo and Juliet. The first reason why children should not listen to their parents is that sometimes parents think they know what is best for their children, but the choice they made does not make the children happy. The most common and relevant example of this is when Old Man Capulet tries to force Juliet to marry Count Paris. Of course through the eyes of the Capulets, Paris and the city of Verona, this marriage is a great alliance. But for Juliet this option is absolutely disgusting. She at the young age of fourteen has no intention of getting married since A) she is already happily married to Romeo, B) she does not want to get married to an old man like her mother and C) she realizes that this option will not make her happy. In Act III, scene v, lines 118, just after Lady Capulet mentions her pre-ordained marriage to Paris, "He will not make me there a joyful bride!" Here she is saying that they will not convince her to go to the wedding happily or at all, for that matter. Surely children shouldn't always listen to their parents because only they know what will make them happy sometimes, just like in Juliet's case. Another reason why children should not always obey... middle of paper.... ..or grow up, is demonstrated well by Juliet. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it is shown that although it is important to take your parents' ideas and thoughts into consideration, disobeying is sometimes the best choice. SOMETIMES. Not always, which is also shown in the play. The idea that children know what will make them happy has a big factor in this. Even the thought that sometimes, when your own ethics and views on morals are at stake, it might be best to do what you think is right. The last one is that sometimes children need to be alone to grow up and learn some valuable life lessons that will benefit them in the bright future they have. So a person can argue either way, but there is a point in a child's life where they will rebel and very often things don't go well, but sometimes they do and there's always next time. Unless you die first.