Poor Judgment

Poor judgment is an important theme in the novel “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever” by Jeff Kinney. Poor judgment is when an action is taking without clearly thinking through the consequences. Poor judgment in turn usually results in bad consequences. Greg is lectured by his father about exercising poor judgment in the novel, but still continues to exercise it – only learning to exercise better judgement the hard way.

The previous year, Greg’s dad bought a brand new car at the same time Greg was named Student of the Week. Greg brought home a bumper sticker as a reward, but Frank didn’t want to put it on his new car. Greg exercised poor judgment then by giving the bumper sticker to Manny – who put it on Frank’s car. Greg then exercises even worse judgment when he tries to use a Brillo...