Parents are the Best Teachers for their kids?

Recently, the number of children who learn at home has been increasing so rapidly, and many parents seem to think that they are the best teachers for their offspring. However, others, including many education experts worry about this phenomenon, and try to persuade the adults saying that public school and official teacher are the best for the children’s growth. In my opinion, I also strongly believe that parents are often not the best teachers for the young.

First of all, parents lack professional knowledge for education. While the school teachers have learned sophisticated pedagogy, children’s behaviors and other important educational information before they become educators, parents have no professional skills to teach their children unless they are the official teachers themselves. Sometimes this could lead to very detrimental for the juvenile because they may not get enough and proper education due to the parents’ inappropriate educational methods. According to numerous researches, people who didn’t completed basic formal education courses at school tend to feel hard to harmonize with society. This fact means that the only education provided by parents is not enough for children to be well-matured people in the future.

Secondly, parents can’t teach their children on the objective standards. Since all parents have certain degree of instinctive, absolute love for their children, they usually can’t punish the young very well. In other words, they tend to embrace their children’s faults even if the mistakes are seriously needed to be fixed. As a result, the youth may not understand what is wrong, and sometimes can’t distinguish the bad from the good. Recently, many articles debunk the social trend that parents have become so benevolent for their children, making them reckless, rude, who are now called “mama boy” or “papa girl”

Lastly, a formal education detached from the parents is very crucial for young students to mature as independent social beings. Unlike parents, teachers from public institution can treat the students more evenly. In addition, the instructors help to understand what our society is, which is quite different from their family and household. For example, most American parents send their children to go camping, school, and other public places without them, since the immature are needed to have some experience being far away from home in order to be independent beings.

Of course parents have some qualities that are unique and very helpful for educating the children. Still, it is more important for the young to have formal education since the school, and other public institution can provide them professional knowledge and social experience, which are can not be given by their parents. Regarding that more people still want the school teachers and most parents are not the most suitable for education, we should reconsider whether parents are the “best” even for their children’s social education.