▶ Your Answer :
A topic of whether parents should set strict rules for their
children if they want them to succeed in life or not is thought-provoking.
Although many people believe that parents should order their children what to
do for their children to obtain success, I strongly contend that parents should
not do so for the following reasons. (Excellent introduction!)
To begin with,
parents should let their children find what they really want to do in the
future and to succeed in the future. Their success does not come from parents'
commandments, but rather from their thoughts and hopes. For example, my parents
longed for me to be a doctor when I was young. However, at that time, I wanted
to be a pilot instead of being a doctor. This is because my father was a doctor
and did not have much time to spend with my family, though he earned a lot of
money. Once they realized that I desired to be a pilot, they let me do what I
wanted to do; thus, I got into one of pilot schools in Korea, and I became what I
wanted to be now. Moreover, I feel I obtained success in my life and very happy to work as a pilot. In this regard, it is much more effective for letting
children to do what they want, rather than setting strict rules for them to
succeed.
Not only that,
what parents think of success and what their children regard it may be different.
Since the world, as time goes by, is changing abruptly, people's mindsets and
perspectives are different from the generation to the generation. I would like to give my sister's experience
to explain about this. My sister used to be good at playing instruments such as
piano, violin, and cello. So, back in middle school, my sister had decided to
be a pianist. However, my parents, at that time, disregarded being a pianist
because they only valued being a lawyer, doctor, or a professor. This was because
of their dissimilar perspectives of what the success is. My sister and young
generations highly respect people who play instruments; however, my parents and
old generations used to respect people who work as experts in their fields such
as doctors and professors. In this sense, because what people deem success as is
different from person to person, I believe that parents should not force their
children to do what they want from their children.
To sum up, because doing what
people want to do is more effective for them to succeed, and what parents and
children think of success might not be similar, it is not appropriate for parents
to set strict rules for children's success. |