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There is an argument whether children’s peers are more important than their parents in their success or not. Although it is true that children’s lives are determined depending on whom their parents are because they make a big influences on their lives. I think that children can succeed or fail in their lives depending on who are their friends.their friends are. In this essay, I will briefly present two reasons to support this.
First of all, there is a generation gap between parents and their children. That is because they have different experiences, thoughts and cultures. For these reasons, sometimes, they do not understand each other. Accordingly, no matter how their parents persuade their children to do good thing for themselves, they do not accept their parents’ idea. They just think that their parents bother them. One day, one of my cousin , Amy told me that their parents her parent did not understand her, and they just pushed her to study hard. She got so much stress from her parent. Even though her parent really hoped that she would be happy in her life, so they just wanted her to study hard, but she just considered her parents’ concern on her as what made her annoyed. Basically, they do not understand each other, so her parents’ cares and concerns on her are useless.
Secondly, most classmates spend their time together by studying or hanging around. They are same ages, and same situation, which means that they are student. That kind of identity allows them to put together and have strong relationship. For these reasons, they influence each other. You can see from newspapers or TV News that teenagers can do bad things not alone but together. On the contrary to this, some relationships have a good influence on each other. For example, one of my friends and I always study together, and sometimes, we hang around together. We can share our difficulties, and worries even what we cannot say to our parents. Sometimes, my friend gives me a good advice and sometimes, I do. From this, we can develop ourselves by competing or cooperating.
In conclusion, I think that peers make bigger influence on one’s life than their parents’. That is because they are in same situation, same ages, and there is no generation gap. Therefore, I believe that meeting good friends in one’s life is very important.
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