In life, there are a number of sources that contribute to one’s education and growth, including: parents, teachers, friends, television, books and movies. Each source is essential to human development in some ways. In my opinion, parents are the best and most important teachers for a number of reasons.
Firstly, parents are the first teachers that each infidel encounters. Even before the babies are born, they can feel and listen to mum and dad talking and singing. After birth, parents teach their babies by sweet songs, by passionate lullabies and beautiful poems. Parents also introduce children to the world around them. Parents help them interact with beautiful, lovely natural scenes. Scientists have proved that children’s brain and thinking grow rapidly between the age of one to five, which is called the preoperational stage according to Piaget’s cognitive development theory – the period spent almost exclusively with two beautiful angels: Mum and Dad.
Secondly, parents do not only teach children to read, write and talk, but also teach children about how to correctly behave. Infants, of course, do not know anything about other people. Parents instruct them how to be polite, how to show respect, how to handle emotions, whom to trust on, whom not to trust on. Parents also teach children ethics and remind them to be honest, truthful, dedicate, forgiving to other’s fault, being generous and kind to poor, disability people. In the other word, they help the children to thrive and survive in society.
Third, and most important, parents teach their infants by example. Because children spend a huge amount of time with their parents when they are young, they learn by observation and imitation. This can be both positive and negative. By observing their parents and relative’s actions, they can learn a lot of new things, a lot of good behaviors. However, not all adult activities are good to observe. There are also some very bad one such as violence, drinking, and smoking. Children can learn these harmful behaviors if their parents exhibit such actions. Children, therefore learn what they live. If their parents are selfish, they will be selfish. If the parents are generous, their children will be generous too.
The final aspect is longevity of relationship. Since acts as teachers for 18 or more years before the child leave home and live independently, they have a much stronger impact than a school teacher whom students may know for as little as one year. Indeed, even after graduating from university, children still need the advices of their parents to struggle for life.
Even thought there are number of sources that contribute to children’s education, the lessons and examples from their parents are still the best, the most resistant one. Parents have not only educational impacts but also ethical impact on infants. For these reasons, I think that parents are the ever best, most important teacher in a person’s life.
