‘Parents are not responsible for teaching their children’

Agreeing with the opinion of many experts that `parents teaching their children to study every night is ‘anti-education’`, reader Hvkhaivnm commented: `Parenting skills are different from teachers’ pedagogical skills. Therefore,

Nowadays, I often see the wrong way of educating many families, always forcing their children to be ‘superheroes’ or ‘prodigies’, forcing them to study almost all day.

Sharing the same thought, reader Pham Thanh Trung emphasized that parents should support instead of doing the work of teachers: `Teaching knowledge is the purpose and task of schools and teachers. If parents also do

`In my opinion, the most important task of parents is to educate their children to be self-aware, as well as create maximum conditions for their children’s self-study, check, urge and be ready to support and help within their ability.

Affirming that self-study is necessary for children’s development, reader Huynh Mai believes that parents should not interfere too deeply: `I agree with the above point of view but from a different perspective:

1. Learning is a child’s problem, let them solve it themselves.

2. If you want your children to develop, parents should not make them `scared`.

Sometimes parents have to be brave, let their children fall low, let them know how to strive to rise, find higher scores, and most importantly, let them do it themselves, our position is just in the back cheering.

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Emphasizing that parents teaching their children is not wrong, but needs to be selective and limited, Cuu Long reader Vinh Bui stated the opinion:

`1. It is not wrong for parents to teach their children, not only to strengthen the bond between father – child and mother – child, but also to show their responsibility for the development of their children’s thinking.

2. However, not everyone has the pedagogical skills to convey the right thinking to their children.

3. We must go back to the problem: why do parents have to teach their children, force them to study, or send them to extra classes?

4. It is not uncommon to hear stories about a problem with two or three different solutions and answers.

Suggesting the right way to teach children, reader Dung Cai shared: `Why are many parents still not accepting the fact that: they are losing their children’s knowledge? Because the curriculum has undergone many reforms,

This ensures that teachers and parents will be closer in supervising their children’s studies (beneficial for both sides), while also creating a close exchange between students and teachers.

I hope parents also have an objective view on this issue and should not put pressure on their children.

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