25th August 2010 topic: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “Parents are the best teacher.”

Since I was born, my parents are the one who give me the most advices. They have shared their experiences to me, they have shared their opinions to me, support me, and believe me when I meet difficulties. I also exchange my thoughts with them to help them to find out my problems. Our parents can teach us lots of things but not all.

Our parents can be very important teachers, but not always the best teachers. We learn many things, our friends, and our parents, our teachers on school, our experiences in life, or even our mistakes. For me, the best teacher is a teacher who gives a good preparation to live your life like teaches you how to act in the public, behave people, respect old folks, courage you when you are dispirited, lets you know that she/he cares about your success.

Parents maybe too close to their children emotionally. They see things through the eyes of protector. They do their best to help us keep off from challenges, failures. For an example, they never let you have a field trip with your class because they think it is too dangerous. For your teachers, they would think that the field trip helps you have more experiences, like team work, friendship… Parents tried to protect you and want the best for you so you can make a confident step into your life.

Another problem why parents aren’t the best teacher is they want their children’s interests to be similar to their own. According to my experiences, my dad is a great fan of music, any kind of music except the music that we, the teenagers are interested in. He collects many high qualities CD, so many that my mom always scowls when he buys a new one. His ambition is to make me interest in music, too. He forced me to study piano even though he knew I didn’t interest in it. Well, yeah, I love music but not his kind of music. What can I do when my dream is different from his? What if he likes me to carry on his career and I like to make my own dream come true?

Parents are usually eager to pass on their values to their children. When we were young, maybe to us, parents are always right because we were not old enough to find answers for our own problems. However, when we were grown-up, we can understand things by ourselves. And while we tried to blend in a technology life, a life with internet to socialize with anyone you like needn’t to move around, using telephone to contact with our friends, technology changes makes parents can’t keep up a life like that, makes them not understand the benefits of a life like that, they can’t even know what their children’s thoughts, so, their conclusions for this kind of life is not good. And I think different generations need ways of thinking.

After all, we all have many teachers in our live, We can learn from our friends, parents and teachers. Everything we learn is all valuable.