Identify ways that help one

become capable and responsible

adolescent prepared for adult life
• Taking responsibility has been part of our daily living. Even when we
are still young, we were trained by our parents to take some duties. It
is in this way that they can raise us well by helping us become capable
to whatever tasks we will be having in the near future and become
very much responsible to whatever obligations we have to take as an
individual and as part of a bigger community.
Responsibility
• Responsibility is any moral, legal or mental obligation or duty that is
directly or indirectly entrusted to you by the people around from
which you are held accountable for whatever consequences or
circumstance that may arrive in the future.
• In our community, young children are not given any responsibility at
all nor held responsible for their actions or negative thoughts. It is
because they are not yet fully grown up and cannot understand the
consequences of their actions.
• As a young kid they still must discover how to deal with the world of
an adult by carefully undergoing the long process. This process takes
place through their day to day experiences and/or through formal
education.
Common responsibilities of adolescents
1. Show respect to elders.
• Adolescents are the model for the younger generation. Their way of
doing things, manner of dressing up, means of talking to elders are
essential for the younger ones as they look for someone who will
serve as their role model. Paying respect to elders would be one of
the most valuable things an adolescent can do in this critical stage
that kids are trying to develop good manners.
2. Take care of the younger ones.
• Helping your parents to take care of your younger siblings is like
hitting two birds with one stone. Giving a hand to your parents as you
take their part in babysitting kids in the family is a means of showing
respect to them and a training ground for you to become a loving and
caring parents in the future. Preparing adolescents to become a
responsible adult of the future really starts within the family and it
does not cost you a lot of money.
3. Study well.
• Studying hard is not your obligation to your family rather it is your
personal responsibility. All this time that you find it difficult to
understand why your parents put a big and heavy burden on your
shoulder by forcing you to study harder you have to realize that they
are only extending their assistance to you so that as you take your
turn in the society you’ll find it easy to perform your role having the
right amount of knowledge facing any and every challenges that
awaits you.
• Accepting this obligation and overcoming the challenges of it will give
you a guarantee of living a bright future.
4. Avoid engaging to bad vices.
• Along with performing your other personal duties you must also
distance yourself from bad vices and practices. First these activities
will surely mislead you from the principles of your parents and
teachings of your school. Second, engaging to bad vices will
consequently draw you away from your dreamed success and instead
you might catch yourself struggling from depression, self-blaming,
tiring stage of self-pity and helpless phase of regrets. In the end, you
will live an unwanted life.
• Nobody deserves to live an unhealthy life so start making it your goal
to live a life away from bad vices.
5. Establish a good identity.
• Identity is what people seek as they try to take their role in their
community. Living with good identify will help you see all your
potentials and love yourself more. A lot of people will start to like
working with you and this would mean learning more.
6. Earn the trust of the people around.
• Gaining the trust of the people that surrounds you is the fulfilling
result of creating your own identify. For example, if you are able to
give a sense of relief to others during the time they least expected it
you’ll certainly earn their trust and at times, they won’t be able to do
things on their own they seek your aid and rely on your presence.
Being reliable becomes your dominant identity and out of this you
obtain trust from the people around.
7. Distinguish good company from bad
influence.
• Living a happy life is everybody’s dream. For you to achieve this kind
of life as adolescent it is vital for you to learn to distinguish good
company from the bad ones. Even though, you have enough trust
from your parents and advisers you are still encouraged to seek their
assistance as you try to identify the qualities of a good company or
people worthy of becoming your closest friends. It is your level of
willpower that helps you concretized your success; however, your
choice of company might hinder your strong will to become
successful. Learn to choose your company well.
8. Know yourself better.
• One of the greatest responsibilities of an adolescent like you is to
become completely familiar with yourself. Knowing yourself is being
able to identify your strongest characteristic traits and personality.
This includes knowing your likes and dislikes. Obtaining a
comprehensive understanding of your abilities and capabilities is of
great advantage for you to become genuinely responsible and later be
a fulfilled individual.
How to become capable and responsible
person in preparation for adult life
Know your priority
• Putting the most important things at the top of your priority is the
best strategy for you to have a good sense of direction. Having this
enables you to identify your goal and keep your concentration on it.
• On the contrary, having too many priorities might give you too much
pressure. There is a big chance that you become anxious on where to
begin with or how to start. A young boy who becomes successful with
one simple goal is greater that a man with so many undelivered plans.
Take it easy. Always remember one step at a time.
Have focus
• Prioritizing things out leads you to set your eyes to the most
important things. This will maximize your strong determination to
accomplish your goals. This will give you a clear mind and a clear
objective as well. Having focused on one thing delivers you from being
efficient in your task/s applying effective strategies. Before you knew
it, you have already maximized your time and you are very much
ready to fulfil another task.
 Be decisive
• Being responsible is equal to being decisive. Decision making is one of the
life skills that teeners must have. Our life depends on how well we decide
on things. People most of the time are afraid of situation where they must
critically decide on things. This is because of their false understanding of
being decisive. All this time young people like you thinks that deciding on
things means coming up with the right decision. This idea is quite absurd for
nobody can really say that what you have chosen is the right one. It is only
when you happen to see its impact that you will get to say indeed it was
right.
• Rather, people must learn that being decisive means being assertive
arriving with the best decision you could come up with by carefully
weighing things and considering the logic implied in the situation.
Therefore, before you become decisive you must be assertive first.
Work diligently
• For you to claim that you are such a responsible person you must
have several outputs to let people see how responsible person are
you. Working with your job is different from working diligently with
your duties.
• Taking time to do your work need not to be imposed to you rather
you should have the initiative to do each. Diligently working entails
joyful atmosphere and graceful aura. A lively spirit would always keep
you blessed with ton of energy and enthusiasm to work hard without
complaining.
Don’t count at all
• A real hard-working person does not count his/her duties instead
he/she works with the goal of finishing all the tasks. This is quite a
simple way of becoming responsible but of equal weight on some
other guiding principles on how to become responsible.
• This character trait will let you have the right spirit to become
responsible individual and build camaraderie with your colleague
developing sense of reliability within you. Later on, this will give a
great amount of circle of friends. On the other hand, when you get
used to counting the task you have finished, and the duties endorsed
to you it may appear so arrogant among your peers.
Stay humble
• Having not to count what you have successfully accomplished will
help you keep your feet on the ground. A responsible person need not
to boast every now and then.
• In some other circumstance, humility may also mean being able to
accept your mistakes and be apologetic. Apologizing for your own
flaws and lapses is a clear indication of humility. Acknowledging your
imperfections and apologizing for it is a clear manifestation that
understanding the virtue of sense of responsibility is little by little
being accepted by your system and sets of principles.
Love your duty
• Your passion towards the fulfilment of your duties can serve as the
fuel that will make you capable of fulfilling even the most impossible
task and challenging duty. It is your love towards your work that will
drive you to the road of becoming capable and responsible individual.
• If diligence can bring out lively spirit in you, your love towards your
sets of obligations bring out all your undiscovered strengths. Loving
your duty keeps your day bright and will help you feel bored not tired
even with the tasks commonly hated by others.
Dedicate time
• Loving your duty is not complete without dedicating your time. Being
responsible individual also requires you to dedicate enough amount
of time. Spending time doing your work is an important matter. It is
when you dedicate your time that all your effort will be materialized.
Your goal to succeed will also be realized.
activity
Activity 1.1 Understanding Ways to Become
Responsible
• Write Yes if you agree with each of the statement and No if you do not
• ______ 1. Sets of responsibility are given to a person at very young age.
______
• 2. Responsibility is any set of obligations entrusted to every person.
______
• 3. As a person becomes mature, he/she becomes of taking responsibility.
______
• 4. All of us are capable of being responsible. ______
• 5. Being responsible will help one grow into a mature person achieve
more.