Education

Once in a great while, I think back of my school days. Frankly, I didn’t work as hard as I should have done, but I really enjoyed my schooldays. My parents respected me and let me do the things what I want. They just believed me and waited. As time goes by, I slowly realized what I really want, and I started to make a plan of my goal. This experience made me to think how parents positively affect the development of children, and I finally arranged my ideas. In this paper, I’d like to examine why parents force their children to do any kind of activity in their leisure time, and how does it affect on them.
We live in the world in which education is highly valued. The great majority of parents want their children to be happy and to develop the skills necessary to be successful in life. They think that a good education will guarantee their children’s success, and they try to give the best opportunity for them. In these reasons, parents often restrict their children’s spare time activity by forcing them to learn other such as sport or musical instrument. It can be compared with my parent’s attitude which I mentioned above. I suppose that parent’s harsh demands will be a big burden on their children.
Parents have the most influence over their child’s intellectual, physical and emotional development. It is undeniable that they paly a primary role in their child’s development. However, we should realize that the meaning of “play a role” and “live” are totally different. Parents cannot live their children’s lives for them; they can only be there to assist when things go wrong. If the case that parents expectations will become an unhealthy obsession on their children, too much interferences will put the pressure on them. On the contrary, allowing children to make their own decisions will help them to develop into an independent person.
There is a saying: “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” (Antoine de