▶ Your Answer :For parents, teaching responsibility to their children is very important since people need to bear the responsibility most of the time living. Thus, some people used to say that the best way to teach the responsibility to children is that making them take care of animals. However, I do not believe that caring animal is the best way to teach responsibility to children. This is because this way will not work if children have no interest in animal and there would be side effect to children instead of learning responsibility
Firstly, if children do not like animals, this way would not work at all. To be specific, if children interested in animals, taking care of animals will give responsibility to them since they need to look after animals and they will understand small things such as feeding them and having fun with them is crucial. However, if children have no interest in animals, the children will never want to take care of the animals, and even if the parents of the children force the children to look after the animals, the children will not learn any responsibility because it does not stem from their will. Therefore, making children take care of the animals is not the best way to teach responsibility to children
Secondly, this would cause side effect to children. There were many cases that animals just ignore the children no matter how hard the children try to be friendly with them and take care of them. Thus, if the animals do not respect their owner with some reason, the children will feel disappointed and depressed rather than learn responsibility. For example, I had a dog in my childhood. I wanted to be familiar with the dog, so I tried many things such as feed him and take a walk with him. However, he never liked me no matter how hard I try. As a result, I needed to feel just embarrassed and disappointed instead of learning responsibility from raising the dog.
In conclusion, I do not agree with the following statement that the best way to teach responsibility to children is to make them take care of the animal. This is because if children have no interest in animals, they will not learn anything about responsibility, and it would arouse side effect to children.
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