In general parents are the protector for their children;
they support their son/daughter mentally, physically and financially,
Since they hope their children lead happy life because of deep love, they make
an great effort to establish good education their children. Thinking about
these characteristic of parents, I would think that if parents love their
children deeply and try their best to educate their children, they will be the
best teacher for their children. However this does not mean that all the
parents become the best teacher for their children.
As I mentioned before, those who love and nurse their
children can be the best teacher. It is because love, which produces
intimate trustworthy relationship between parents and child makes every
decsipline very effective for children. When children do bad things
in daily life such as telling a lie, behaving aggressively, and hurting others,
their parents mostly scold their children harshly. This must be bitter
experience for them but their parents' warning is probably the most persuasive
discipline for children. Through worming relationship in daily life,
they know well it is their own parents who love and worry about them best.
Children will think that their parents scolded them for their children and
therefore obedience to parents' warning is helpful for them. In this way,
any advice with close relationship tied with mutual trust leads their children
right way more certainly than that with others.
Despite parents' potential element as the best teacher, we cannot allege that all the parents can be the greatest mentor. This is due to the fact that some parents do not love their children and make intimate relationship or fail to educate their children properly. As I said before, without trustful relationship, children never obey their parents' advice. Moreover, if their parents teach their children important things for them to adopt socially, they cannot be regarded to be the best teacher. Unfortunately now in my country there are lots of parents cannot educate their children so that the son/daughter behave badly in the society. They annoy others without proper reasons, commit a crime, or hurt others feeling without hesitation. As long as we have these situation in our daily life, therefore, I cannot agree with the idea that all the parents can be the best teacher. |