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Parents are responsible for taking care of their children until they can live by themselves without their parents’ help. It means that they should help their children be a person living well in their society, but it does not mean that they decide on their children’s entire life. However, some parents tend to decide on all things concerning their children, even their spouse. Even though I totally understand parents’ concerns for their children, I think that good parents are those who let their children make important decisions on their life by themselves. I will briefly present two reasons to support my opinion.
First of all, children whose parents always decide on their life cannot live as a member of their society. People in modern society make many decisions even in a day. Some decisions are very trivial such as what to eat and what to wear. Other decisions are very important to affect people’s life such as deciding whether they quit their job. Whenever people make a decision, they cannot ask someone such as parents for advice. In other words, sometimes they should make a decision by themselves. Children who have never made any decision in their life do not know what to do when they make an important decision, which make them have difficulty in adjusting their society. Therefore, such children are not easy to be a member of their society.
Secondly, what parents can do for their children is decreased as their children grow up. When children are very young, they cannot do anything by themselves without their parents’ help. That is because children do not have enough knowledge and experiences concerning the world, and do not have financial abilities to take care of themselves. However, the role of parents should change as their children grow up. Children learn a variety of knowledge from school, various activities. In addition, they can have ability of judging right or wrong and making important decisions on the basis of the knowledge. For these reasons, the role of parents becomes minimized as just giving some advices that their children need to decide something.
In conclusion, parents cannot do everything for their children in their life because someday, they will be as weak as they need their children’s help. Therefore, they should help their children to be able to live by themselves since they were young. For this reason, parents should make their children decide something by themselves
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