Right to Privacy

Privacy is something that means different things to everyone. What is privacy? Privacy is the right to are own space and belonging. As a child, we really don’t know the meaning of privacy, but as we get older the idea of privacy becomes a big thing to us. Should you get privacy as a child? Some say you should, but others say no way. There are many reasons you should get privacy as a child, but there are also reasons you should not.

As a child, privacy is something you probably don’t fully understand the concept of but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get it. As a parent it’s really their choice to decide if their child should get privacy or not, the choice that that parent make on whether to give them privacy or not can really affect a child growing up. Children whose parents decide to not give them privacy can often turn out sneaky and learn how to lie because they often have to hide things from their parents growing up. When I was growing up didn’t really care about privacy, shore I wanted it every now and then but I didn’t really ever think about it because it was never really something my parents ever discussed with me or around me. Growing up my parents never really made privacy something weird, they also never made it feel like something I shouldn’t have because I was a child. By the time a child starts school, there should be that privacy, they should get the choice on whether they share something with them or not because parents don’t always need to know everything that happens in the child’s life.

There are always those people that say children shouldn’t have privacy, and sometimes they are right. There are times in my life where I’ve probably done things I shouldn’t, and they could have easily been prevented if I didn’t have so much privacy. As a smaller child, it probably is best they don’t have as much privacy as older kids because young children don’t always know right from wrong, so parents should know what they are doing so they don’t do something that could harm them. Too much privacy in a child’s life could make them distant from their parents and friends in the future, leaving a child alone with too much privacy can teach them it’s better to be alone then with others and that’s not really a great thing.

Should children get privacy? Privacy for children is something that is good in moderation, it’s sometimes good and other times it’s bad. Privacy for children is really something the parents should deal with and decide for the child. Privacy can be different for everyone and that’s OK.

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