It is often said that parents are the best teachers. Those people who think like that say since parents are the closest to their children, they understand their children well and it’s beneficial when they teach their children. However, in my opinion, no matter how much knowledge parents have or they understand their children well, it’s really hard for them to be the best teachers. This is because parents are usually busy with their work. Also they don’t have professional teaching skills as normal teachers have.
First, they are already busy with their own work. At least one of parents has a particular job. He or she might leave for his or her workplace in early morning, do a lot of hard work and come back home in a late afternoon feeling really tired. Even after he or she comes back home, he or she might has to do some work which they didn’t finish in a day. If they take care of their children’s school work or teach them something academic, they will feel too tired and can’t focus on teaching their children because they are already too tired. For instance, my both parents have jobs. They usually come home at 7 pm. As soon as they come home, they provide me with foods and clean up my house. As they finish their chores, they immediately go to bed. They say they are already exhausted with their work at job and chores. They are not able to teach them properly because of tiredness.
Second, parents are not professional educators. When someone teaches something to a child, it requires proper teaching skills in order to make a child understand new information and gain knowledge efficiently. However, most parents don’t even know what efficient ways to teach their children beneficially are. More importantly, parents can give false information to children because of limit of knowledge. This can make it a lot worse than just reading a book alone. For example, when I was 14, my mom always tried to teach me every subject I learned from school. She always took care about my school work. However, my mom wasn’t professional in every subject and she made a lot of mistakes when she teaches me something. Also, the way she teaches always made me angry. She wasn’t impatient so she always yelled at me when I didn’t understand concept well. My grades were really bad at that time. After big fight with my mom, I could start studying all by myself and my grades became better than before.
In conclusion, I definitely believe that parents are not the best teachers because of tiredness from their work and lack of profession. To be a real teacher, it requires years of majoring in education. I don’t think people can become good teachers just right after they have a child. |