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What is important for child?

Child is one of the important part for people growing up. There have many factors will influence child growing up. Such as family, classmates, media, environment or something like that. But what is most important for child? I think every parents have their own ideas, and they will teaching child by them own way or Asking someone who has had successful experience. I believe almost parents would hope their child are learning more than others child, or hoping child are growing up well. So, for some parents who will teach child a lot over than the child who can be accepted. Is it good for child growing up? Also, some parents will spend more time on work and give their child to better environment. Is it good for child growing up too? I will use two articles prove what is important for child.

The first article is “The hurried child growing up too fast too soon” by David Elking. He point out, “I believe there is no reason to involve a child in such sports until at least the age of six or seven”. How do we request a basketball player to play soccer well, it is impossible. Then, how do we request a child to learn academic skills, like reading or writing when they just a kid. Parents desire their child learn more and early that reflect the parents want their child be better than others child when they go to elementary-school and high school. But this is not a good way to help child grow up. We know grasses needs sunshine and water, but if you keep pulling it, it will just die. The child just like grasses, sunshine and water like academic skills or ability. When they grow up, they need time to learn and control. If we pulling it fast and more, child absolute not accept them. The consequence for child is having more and more press. It also like we keep pulling gas in balloon, guess what? “Bomb”. So David Elking is trying to tell us when child grow up, parents have to give child appropriate knowledge, not just pulling all of the academic skills for child.

The second article shows parent spends more time with their children better than parent using their time on work and give their children a better environment. The article “Life stages” by Steven Mintz, he wrote many things about childhood on second part”social and cultural construction of the life stages” on his article. Such as the social pay more attention on childhood, more and more school got build up. But I think the important for child grow up in that child will leave the home when they are adult, maybe the reason is that bring money to family. There have a hidden problem here: we know child is hard to have right direction of judgement, even if children enter the good school and get the professional teacher’s help, but children still hard to cultivate values to distinguish between right and wrong. Because teacher just can teach children writing, reading, and initiating knowledge. How about others time that child do not at school. If parents spend more time on work, they probably could give child the best environment, but that all they can do. When child at home, they have many opportunity to use media, such as computer, TV. But there have many bad information for child on that media, if child have not right judgement, how do they choose what information they should learn. Steven point out the teenager will leave home, if they do not have right direction of judgement, how do they living well by themselves? So, I think parents spend more time with child is better than parents using their time on work and give their children a better environment.

In conclusion, there have many problems will influence child grow up. When we teach child learning that we should know what extent or degree is good for them to study, not just give them all that we want them to do. This just give child pressure not helping. Also, when child grow up, some of them will leave us, and we cannot living with them forever. As a parents, spend more time with child is better decision than spend time on work. Parents’ Love is the best food or knowledge to child, if we want to child grow well, just spend more time with them and do not give them a lot work,