Are parents best teachers?
Obviously, the first teachers we have in our lives in most
cases are our parents. They teach us to walk, to speak,
and to have good manners before we reach the real
world. More than even the professional teachers that we
have at school, parents are generally the most involved in
the development and education of children.
Almost for sure our parents are the best teachers at the
beginning of our lives, which actually corresponds to the
parents' role in nature. Parents are most committed and
involved in teaching their children; they have a kind of
instinct to sacrifice a part of themselves for the better-
ment of their children. They love us and have great pa-
tience while passing down their knowledge to us. They
wish us a success and thus will not teach us bad things.
And of course, implicit learning occurs when children
unconsciously copy some of their parents' habits and
styles of behavior.
During the second stage of child development, adoles-
cence, parents can still be in the best position to offer
advice even though the children might not accept it. In
this case, perhaps the child's friends would be the best
teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in many
cultures and may automatically reject any advice from
their parents. My first marriage for instance, was solely a
matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to
intrude in offering their advice. So in such matters, par-
ents should be much more flexible and be rather the
partners with their children. So we can see that being a
teacher of growing child become more and more compli-
cated case as the time passes and many parents are sim-
ply not able to meet the increased demands.
On the other hand, I would say that parents are not pro-
Obviously, the first teachers we have in our lives in most
cases are our parents. They teach us to walk, to speak,
and to have good manners before we reach the real
world. More than even the professional teachers that we
have at school, parents are generally the most involved in
the development and education of children.
Almost for sure our parents are the best teachers at the
beginning of our lives, which actually corresponds to the
parents' role in nature. Parents are most committed and
involved in teaching their children; they have a kind of
instinct to sacrifice a part of themselves for the better-
ment of their children. They love us and have great pa-
tience while passing down their knowledge to us. They
wish us a success and thus will not teach us bad things.
And of course, implicit learning occurs when children
unconsciously copy some of their parents' habits and
styles of behavior.
During the second stage of child development, adoles-
cence, parents can still be in the best position to offer
advice even though the children might not accept it. In
this case, perhaps the child's friends would be the best
teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in many
cultures and may automatically reject any advice from
their parents. My first marriage for instance, was solely a
matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to
intrude in offering their advice. So in such matters, par-
ents should be much more flexible and be rather the
partners with their children. So we can see that being a
teacher of growing child become more and more compli-
cated case as the time passes and many parents are sim-
ply not able to meet the increased demands.
On the other hand, I would say that parents are not pro-
fessional teachers and they tend to be very biased by their
love of their children. So wishing good things and an easy
life may prevent children from maturation. In any case,
parents usually can present only one viewpoint of the
world, while good teaching should be based on different
attitudes. Thus, when children go to school and have a
great diversity of teachers, they learn much more than
their parents could probably give them. Furthermore,
once our parents get older, they become more conserva-
tive and cannot always be objective in regard to modern
trends and fashions. Thus we need to take their advice
with caution during that period. However, some kind of
intuition that I believe shared between relatives about
what everybody needs and great love that exists in fami-
lies still makes our parents very good teachers and advis-
ers at any time.
In conclusion, while parents are not the ideal teachers,
and well-rounded children will generally need a great
diversity of teachers in their lives in order to have a more
accurate view of the world, parents are generally the most
committed of all teachers and have the greatest emotional
investment in their children and their future.
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