Whether the rules for teenagers and youth today are too strict has triggered a heated discussion. In many adults’ views, it is accurate and essential for young people to follow and obey social rules. However, contrary to their opinions, the rule that societies expect us to follow is so strict and hard to accept.

Due to the large population, people in China own limited education resources and compete fiercely for entering excellent universities. Education makes everyone nervous, including teachers and parents, not to mention students. Under such nervous circumstance, young people must be highly self-disciplined in the study and possess less enjoyable time. Students in the school have plenty of homework to do, whether on weekdays or on weekends. What’s more, there are many rules that ban a wide range of things and then cut students’ relaxing time. For example, puppy love is not allowed in both school rules and social rules. To avoid it, boys and girls need to keep some distances from each other for preventing misunderstanding by others. Mobile phones are always forbidden playing by students on the campus, which weakens their social skills and make them tired.

Some society also makes some unspoken rules of gender stereotypes, which limit people’s interest and professional development. For instance, women are expected to learn literature while men are supposed to contribute to science and technology. Women who major in technology field are always worried about their career development, because human resource managers prefer to recruit male employees. When in interview, employers are likely to believe that workers of a gender can behave better than the other gender, which regards as gender stereotypes. Nevertheless, such rules are incorrect and unfair, which limited career choice and is really strict for young people.

In conclusion, the rules which societies expect younger to follow nowadays are too strict and unreasonable to obey, whether in the school or the workplace.