Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Our Parents are Our Best Teachers

[2] Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples
to support your answer.

Someone might deny a simple fact that our parents are our best
teachers. They argue that friends, or professors in the
universities are much better than our own parents in lots of
professional areas. And they question fiercely with "How could
they, old and ignorant guys be our best teachers?" But the truth
is that they are absolutely wrong.

Our parents are usually the first teachers of our languages,
communication skills and what's more important they almost build
us a theory on what's good and bad, and what's to value.

Even since the birth of each child, its parents seldom leave them
alone. They provide its food and help it survive the dangers
hiding in the start of life. By playing with it, their voice and
guestures impress deeply in the young mind. They create the
circumstance for the child to try the first step of standing up,
striding and making a meaningful sound. The suitable environment
help the baby develop all necessary skills for the human
society. As is known, those babies without tender cares of their
parents, brought up in the jungles by wild life, seldom come back
to our society with ease.

Later, as the child begins to understand the language he is
applying in daily life, his habits and values are more or less
influenced by his parents. Researches have shown that boys tend
to be curious about what their fathers do for work and girls find
their mothers' job interesting. And in daily life, parents'
favors are more frequently picked up, since the young are usually
awarded with this choice and they begin to find the merits of the
choice. This influence is fundamental in everyone's life, even
years after when we get into universities and make new friends.

There are other teachers in our life, some of whom might be as
good as our parents. Their ideas might conflict and we will even
feel frustrated when our old arguments are challenged. The
frustration, no matter whose argument we will favor later, shows
the impression of our first teachers. They are best in planting
unnoticed seeds of thinking methods, cognitive procedures in our
minds. And the seeds sprout and strive. Maybe year later we find
that their banal arguments are wrong. But they indeed helps us
overcome the difficulties enountered in the early life and make
us be ourselves, who're standing here, writing this essay.

time 34min, 400 words
typos: guestures -> gestures, enountered -> encountered
strive -> thrive and flourish
it's poorly written I guess...

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