BATTLE OF THE SHAKER HEIGHTS movie reaction

A house is not a home. Thus, the house where you sleep is whole lot different from a home where you rest. Parents contribute a lot in the making of either descent or delinquent chidren.     Shown in the movie were indifferent parents-the father, an “ex” drug addict even-who seemed not to care a lot for Kelly who turned out to be a rebel then, for if they did, their son might not have drove the wrong turn. Kelly hated his father and feels less attached to his mother,a commercial artist who works out of their garage, who is desperate for Kelly to forgive his father. When confronted as to when he is going to forgive him, Kelly replies, "I'll forgive him when I can go to college. But I can't, can I, because he used all my college fund to buy Mexican Black Tar." Kelly is furious at his father for the torture he put him through.
    The feeling of hatred towards one's parent indicates an unhappy home, thus, resorts to a run down behaviour, confusion and being lost. During adolescence, one needed greater attention—the attention that may guide them which path is greener and which path leads to doom. Some people may even say that an infant is much easier to be taken care of than to babysit a teenager. When children reach adolescence, it seems as if the world is new—like the feeling of a child in the middle of a carnival seeing many colorful lights and rides wondering what would it be like to try one. The world by that time is so inviting packed with numerous choices when you were then able to choose what you wanted and think of ways to get the thing you wanted most. This stage is a mother and a father's biggest challenge in rearing up a son or a daughter that careful attention and guidance is indeed vital in shaping well mannered teens.
    In reality, life doesn't only advertise  good choices but above all, bad goods which were usually more palatable yet deceiving. A parent's job is to guide his child to eat the apple than the lollipop, the water and not the beer, school and not drugs. This is a very crucial step where some parents neglects most of the time thinking that being able to feed their children food is more than enough to satisfy their needs. But what kind of guidance will you find in a family who is more than busy to even think of you?  As a result of failed parenting, Kelly was lost in delusion. He doesnt even know what his choices are and goes on to life unguided. He was like an army without guns who fires the cannon without the knowledge on how to fire it. He sets on what he wanted and pushes through it without evaluating consequencies—he doesn't know what he really wanted because he's just, most of the time, overwhelemed at the moment. He had poor self concept. He was then unguided. He had a house but hever lived there. Kelly finds comfort in his friend's abode (Bart's) due to, first, his love desire for Tabby (Bart's sister) and perhaps the happiness and attention that he would experience from people living in the house. He often finds welcome in other people's doorstep.
    Some people just won't grow up because they were not taught to grow up. Growing up is not something that you make by yourself alone. It's a teamwork, a group effort, a combined project that both child and parents do. Yet sometimes it still comes to our realization that, for myself, I need to grow up. Though growing up is a hard page to scribble, it doesn't guarantee you mistakes. When the wounds of the punches from a teen rumble heals, his mind ripens. Maturity comes to people who then realized that growing up is also a choice and thus chooses to mature. In the end, thinking of the damage caused by our the wrong choices and the errors we've done would suddenly make us say, indeed, “I deserved it”. We may not erase these errors yet we can always choose not to find ourselves again guilty of the same mistake, for, we do and we still don't run out of chances—and we deserved it.