TOEFL Practice 5

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 300 words / 30 minutes

There is no doubt that the role of our parents is to guide us and teach us as much as they can. It is important to underline that children are learning everything from scratch and the first person they trust in the world is their parents. 

The teaching and learning processes within a family need to be present everyday in a conscious way. The adults need to take a stand and decide what they will teach and how they want their kids to learn it. Every single details count.

Parents are the best teachers because of two reasons. One, they are always there (or at least they are suppose to). Two, because the children trust them more than anybody else. For example, if a kid learns at their neighbor’s house that broccoli is not good for his health, and then goes and ask his father what is wrong with broccoli, the father will probably say that is good to eat broccoli and that some people doesn’t like it. This situation will satisfy the kid with new knowledge. If he trust his father he can take an experience from his life and turn it into a lesson that gives him understanding and knowledge.

Later in life, when we become young adults, the role of our parents as teachers becomes more difficult. As teenagers, usually we stop trusting in our parents, so we do not see them as role models or teachers anymore. In many cases, this happen because the answers that we have got from our parents are not good enough or they contradict our wishes. After this hard stage of our life, parents regain their place and they become wise teachers again, specially when the children, as adults, start to follow the parents steps and experiencing some of the same things. Like becoming a parent, for instance.

307 words / 16:20