▶ Your Answer :Children’s intellectual, social, and
personal development is highly influenced by their family. With this
understanding, I believe that the extended family is as important now as
before. This is because living with many family members enables children to learn
life wisdom from elders and get to know how to cooperate with each other.
First, extended family enables children to learn
life wisdom from older family members Understanding the daily environment of children
and the potential role of extended family is necessary to substantiate this
view. Every morning, once children are at school, they have to endure countless
textbooks and continue to read more books even at home. However, they cannot
learn how to deal with their real problems from their textbooks. As a way to handle
it, young people used to learn about life wisdom from their grandmother and
grandfather. It is still valid in modern times. In this regard, I learned that
living with elder people enables young people to strengthen relationships with
family.
Second, the extended family enables children
to get to know how to cooperate with each other. Interestingly, a renowned
social scientist in South Korea published an article in “The Korean Herald”
which claims that extended family enable people to learn how to cooperate with
each other. The article claims that 62 percent of 200 Korean senior executives
at leading corporations believe that the key to their success was their
experience of living with many family members during their childhood. This is
because it taught them how to cooperate with each other. They added that a
sense of cooperation is regarded more highly now than in the past because today’s
huge problems and tasks cannot be resolved by one individual’s talent and
ability; rather they must be processed with the advice and help of others. In
this sense, the extended family enables children to learn the importance of
cooperation.
To sum up, I believe that the extended family is
as important as before in modern times. This is because it enables children to
learn life wisdom and get to know how to cooperate with each other. Consequently,
the importance of my view cannot be underestimated for the reasons I have
mentioned above. |