Nowadays, many people think that parents should take a parenting course to learn how to bring up their children well. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

新晉父母應該參加育兒課程，學習怎樣撫養孩子。你在多大程度上同意或不同意?

5月雅思寫作考試真題大作文范文匯總，點擊進入

Analysis：

父母是否應該去參加一個關于孩子教育的課程(a parenting course)? 參加這樣的課程對于孩子教育是否非常重要?對于這樣的問題，我們的答案可能yes，也可能no，如果是yes, 那原因無外乎是這樣的課程可以教會父母怎樣培養孩子，發現孩子的才能，同時在這樣的課程中，父母還可以與其他人交流從而獲得教育孩子的經驗，等等。如果是no，那原因無外乎孩子教育中，最重要的不是理論，而是實踐，父母應該通過親身示范才會教育好孩子，同時，參加這樣的課程既浪費時間，同時又浪費金錢，不如多些時間陪伴孩子，多些金錢給孩子購買閱讀的書籍，等等。

Sample answer：

A parenting course is one designed to help parents understand how to bring up their children in a better way. While many people think such a course is extremely useful, I think it is of very little use, if not at all, to parents who wish to give their children a better future.

In the first place, attending a parenting course is valuable to parents only in theory, but not in practice. Such a course usually tells the parents why they should do this and avoid doing that. For instance, parents are often told to let their children voice their opinions publicly, or encourage their children to follow certain rules and regulations. But as we know, bringing up a child is never so easy as remembering some set principles. It is a far more tricky and delicate undertaking. As each child is a unique case, the parents actually have nobody, not to mention any universal rule, to depend on but their own judgements and understanding. Pushing a child shy in nature to speak themselves out in public is no good, and making a child with a highly original mind follow others is like dampening their talents.

Additionally, taking a parenting course is sometimes costly in time and money. Normally, parents have to spend more than 100 hours on such a course, but this time could just as well be spent taking the child to the park or working together with the child towards the solution to a certain interesting problem. The more time parents spend with their children, the better upbringing the children may have. If the parents have to pay much money for a parenting course, then their children are sacrificed one more time: the books their parents buy for them with the money may never be bought now because their parents have spent the money on some stupid parenting course.

In my view, the parents take a parenting course due to laziness or a lack of confidence. They do not want to go into the life of their children but want to be told some "truths" about bringing up children; they do not believe in themselves but rather in books and what others tell them. A parenting course is thus not beneficial, but detrimental to parents when upbringing their children.

（382 words）

以上內容原載于“唐老雅”，如有版權問題，請聯系雅思中國網管理員修改或刪除。