Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 'Parents are the best teachers' |
From the time when we are born, we start to spend a lot of time with our parents. Parents are the first people we see. Since we have most of our time with our parents, they have big influences to our lives. Also, parents are only ones who are responsible for our lives in the world. Even though parents always want to teach their best things to us, I disagree with the statement that ‘Parents are the best teachers,’ for several reasons. Parents are not professional educators in every area that we are interested. Since parents love us so much they can be over protective. Lastly, they often spoil their children with subjective views. For those reasons, I think parents have lacked skill to be best teacher for their children. First of all, parents cannot give the right answer and expert knowledge to their children all the time Children are curious about everything. When I was young, I wanted to learn so many things such as piano, English and art. My parents, however, did not know about these subjects. Even though they wanted me to learn everything that I wanted to, they could not help me. Thus, they found some teachers who could help me. And they sent me school so that I could get a chance to get better education from expected teachers. For this reason, even though parents always support their children and want them to success, parents have many difficulties to be best teachers. Moreover, parents can be over protective because of their unconditional love for their children. Since all parents in the world love their kids and want them to be safe, they are being sometimes too protective. Parents do not want their children to come home late, sometimes they do not let them go out and hang out with their friends. For example, I had a friend and her parents always tired to protect her from just about everything. She did not know how to take public transportation such as train and bus, and make a one meal for herself. Parents cannot live with their kids forever, so they have to teach their children to survive in real world. A kid who cannot do anything without his or her parents because of his or her parents’ over protection, can we still consider the parents as best teacher? So I believe that parents tend to be sometimes the worst teacher. Lastly, children can be spoiled because parents do not see their children in an objective way. These days, people prefer to have small families which involve parents and only one or two children. So, they want offer everything to their children. Parents often buy every toy that their children want. Those kids often think about themselves and believe that they can do whatever they want to. Last year, I used to baby-sit nine years old girl and she was impolite and rude to others. Other people could see that the girl was spoiled, but for parents she was just a cutest little girl. At the time, I learned that parents are not best teacher all the time. Every parents love their children the most; their love is unconditional and unlimited. However, sometime their love can be too protective and they spoil their children. Also, parents cannot have professional knowledge to teach their children like school teaches do. Therefore, I think that parents are not always best teachers. |