Journal 40: Get What You Want

           Freedom is probably one of the most frequent and significant things that most children asked from their parents. How come? For instance, what should you do in order to convince your parents successfully if your school or friends are trying to raise a trip during spring break, which you wanted to go eagerly? Should you use logic, emotion? Or should you try other techniques to reach your goal? In this case, I believe most children will use emotional appeals in order to persuade their parents. For example, all children are good at whining. Therefore, they usually use whatever facial expressions they had to convince their parents as much as they can. Yet, this method can create two problems. First, some parents might use emotional appeals against their children. They will probably get angry at their children, which persuade your parents unsuccessfully. On the other hand, some parents might agree with their children, because they do not want to see their children crying, whining, and shouting. There’s another method called logical method. This is the method I used most often. The reason is simply that my parents seldom go with emotional appeals. For this, if you provide specific examples, such as some of your trusted friends or adults are going with you to the trip. Your parents might agree, and let you go to the trip with your friends.