Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Parents shape their children from the beginning of their children’s lives. They teach their children values. They share their interests with them. They develop close emotional ties with them. Parents can be good teachers for children, but they are not always the best teachers.
First of all, parents may expect their interests to be similar with ones of the children. If the parents love science, they may want them to love science. But what if the children do not like science? If they wanted to be doctors, they may force children to become doctors. But what if the children have a dream to be an artist?
Another problem is that parents may be too close to their children emotionally. For example, they may limit a child’s freedom in the name of safety. A teacher may organize an educational field trip to a big city, but the parents may think this trip is dangerous. A school may take the child to go a summer camping, but the parents may be afraid of the child getting hurt.
Furthermore, because parents are not professionally trained as teachers, they cannot be the best teachers. Parents themselves may be important teachers for their children, however best teachers should have further qualifications. Parents are not always the experts to teach, control or treat children. They lack of skills for that kind of works.
Parents are important teachers in our lives, but they are not always the best teachers. Fortunately, we have many teachers in our lives. Our parents teach us, our school teachers teach us, and we learn from our peers. Books and newspapers also teach us. All of them are valuable.