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8.2 独立写作 Parents should help children to do their work or encourage children to do their work independently.
In this day and age, parents, the first and the most important person for every kid, are bothered by many dilemmas during child rearing: more beverages or not, more TV time or less, private school or public school? Eventually, they will run into this one: should they help with their kids’ school work or not? If they tend to help out every night, the situation may last as long as their children’s school years go. If they step back, their kids might risk falling behind in class, because all other kids are getting help from their parents. Nevertheless, “everyone else is doing it” is not a good reason for this action. Rather than help their children with school works, parents should encourage kids to solve their problem independently.
Apparently, coping with the works from children, parents consume a great deal of time and energy, which should have been used on job performance and home affairs. In Asian society, there never run short of parents working 12-8 hours at day job, and 4-5 hours as their kids’ tutors. Under the increasing burden, one day the white-collar parents will lose their former high performances; even the most vigorous ones cannot escape from this adversity. Take my colleague Melisa as an example. She suddenly fell behind from the top-5 sales to the failing group after her 7-year-old daughter attended primary school. Making hand work from art class, solving math puzzles, and supervising her girl’s word dictations, all these extra works turned her into careless and rude sales person when meeting clients. She lost her clients’ faith, and also her boss’. This is unfair for a young mother.
Besides, parents are not the good roles when tutoring kids at home. Parents already did their learning procedures when they were in school. In this phrase of their life, their priorities are to earn money and feed family. When taking on the helping role in kids’ school works, they have to relearn everything all over again with elder brains, be better at the works than their kids are, and explain every puzzle in easy-to-learn way. These procedures are really hard for parents. For example, if you have a kid in 3rd grade, you must make endeavor to find three ways to solve a math question, to create four new colors out of three-primary colors with palettes, and even to collect pictures of more than 5 kinds of butterflies. Parent, who is neither a developmental expert nor a certificated teacher, can easily blur the line between helping and doing it for kids.
Admittedly, if you help out your kids as much as other parents, your children may achieve higher scores when ranking. And if you don’t do that, your children would probably lose their confidence on the ranking table. But the high score are the ultimate goal of education? You may take it serious right now, however, what are your considerations about the ability to face difficulties, the time management ability, the curiosity of knowledge, and the innovative spirit?The distinction should be critical because helping their school works gain one goal but fail all the others. Finally, we have to accept that our high-scored boy and girl have to do their researches independently. They have to overcome the depression and helplessness when facing tough problems, both academic and domestic.
Based on the discussion above, I strongly advocate parents to let go on their school work. Because tutoring on their homework do not effective as you imaged, but negatively influence you and your kids.
之前考过,用过模板,结果都fair,这次不拿模板写的,但是超时~哎
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