One year ago, when I was in middle school first year, I had a close classmates who love soccer and I spent a lot time with him. Before that, when I was in elementary school 6th year, I never played soccer because I had no friends who like soccer. However, last year I played soccer everyday because he always asked me to play soccer. My parents didn't like this because I spent too much time playing soccer but because I wanted to play with my friend than to follow my parent's advice, I kept playing soccer. Like this, child's interests are more affected by their classmates than their parents, and this interests will also affect the child's success. Therefore, I think a child's success is more affected by their classmates than their parents.
Moreover, you can improve yourself by competing with other classmates. Imagine that you don't have any classmates but you are alone. You won't be able to evalute your ability well because you can't have any standard of good if you are alone. Also, You won't have any competition so you won't try harder to be better than anyone else. Without any competitions, you won't improve yourself.
Lastly, you don't have so many things to have conversation with your parents. Because your ages are too different it's so hard to have common share. For example, me and my parents, I'm interested in soccer and not so expensive things, but my father is interested in cars, watches, etc which is really expensive and which I can't have a lot information. And if you don't talk, your parents' ideas or thinkings won't affect you a lot. On the other hand, your classmates is just on your ages, and you have so many things to talk with. TV show, sports games, computer games. So, your classmates' thinking can affect you easily.
In conclusion, because of competition enabled by the classmates and because your thinkings can be affected easily by plenty of conversations and time you spend with them, I think that the classmates affect the child's success than parents. |