Some people say that parents cannot teach their own children and sometimes their advices are not enough to meet children’s' needs. However I disagree with the above statement and believe that parents are the best teachers. There are many reasons but the two most significant reasons are as follows. First, parents has known their children's personality than others secondly, parents spend a lot of time with children.
To start with, almost every parent recognizes their children's strong points and drawbacks. This is because parent has a lot of information about children which is gotten from when bringing up them.
Coming from my personal experience, I did not like to read books when I was an elementary student. Thus my ability to read and write is not good to follow a writing class at school. At that time my parents considered how to make me love reading for a long time. Finally my parents figured out the fact that I enjoyed watching on TV program “ Sherlock Holmes’. They bought many detective novels and leaded me to realize fun of reading. My parents taught me joy of reading so naturally.
In addition, parents spend a lot of times with children. It is said that true education is achieved from not books but actions. Parents can show various valuable activities through daily life and children can learn many important lessons such as social relationship, ethics and generosity from parent’s behavior.
For instance, we live in an information society where reading and writing ability is everyday activities. Especially, students should study and make an effort to improve these skills because these abilities are not gained in a day. If parents read books and study something they want to learn about habitually, children try to imitate parents’ action and reading and studying will be a very ordinary habit to them. Their literacy skills will be certainly getting better.
To conclude, parents can give some significant advice to children because they know children’s characteristics exactly. Furthermore, they spend almost every day with children and willing to show kinds of valuable activities. With these two reasons considered, I firmly agree with the opinion that parents are the best teachers. |