It is obvious that our educational structure is rapidly changing today. Therefore, the debate of what contribute more to children’s growing has been a widely discussed topic. For some people, they may say the family still take charge of the development of children, while there is also voice from the opposite said today the outside environment play a more crucial part in children’s growning. As far as I concerned, the outside environment has been the most
critical part of children’s life.
One reason is, it is self-evident that by the widespread of compulsory education, now teachers and peers are playing a more positive part in children’s life. Since primary school, children have to pay about 40 hours a week in school. They take part into activities arranged by school and make friends there. By the development of self awareness, children will be more active to play or chat with their peers than their parents. By comparison, the time parents and children get together is too short. Only before about three or four years old can children completely get together with their parents.
The another reason is, children are more likely to take information from outside world than before. Before 2000, due to the poor development of internet, children have limited method to communicate with outside world. So the majortiy of the information they learn is given by their parents and teachers. At that time, we can say parents have a undoubtful power in children’s life. But today the situation has changed. For instance, my consin learn how to cook meal and how to clean up his room only by internet, While these kinds of work is taught by parents in 1990. Because of that, the outside world are playing a more crucial role in children’s development.
At last, I fully admit that parents still have a powerful status in children’s growning, but now, the outside world is going to have a greater influence on children. We should recongize that phenomenon in a proper way and balance the relationship between family and outside world.