Are parents the best teachers?

It’s quite popular to think that our parents are the best teachers in the world and they exactly know what we need and what is best for us? However, when we start to think about it more deeply, usually question “Is it true” arises. Frankly, my respond would be no.

I am aware of the fact, that parents are one of the most important people in our lives. Without them we even wouldn’t be here, but because of their fear that something bad could affect us, they see things not so objective. Of course, they teach us many things – first words, first steps, how to behave in a society and much more. They can tell us about their own experiences or mistakes, so we won’t do them like they did. But maybe these experiences and mistakes and errors in their lives are the reasons why they are so fearful when we want to try something new. They often think that they know better than us what we really want, what our dreams are and what we really need.  When we want to risk they try to do anything to persuade us that this decision is wrong.

To my mind, it’s absolutely great how they care about us, but maybe we need to make our own mistakes, risk something – it can bring us the absolute happiness, or maybe we will be disappointed but at all costs we try it and we will be satisfied that we could manage it. We can lose something but every-time, even when the result is different, as we had expected, we have some new experiences and new people in our lives.

It’s a life – try, fall, rise and believe in our dreams and fulfill them – but first of all, we must try and begin and know that our parents will be there for us and be supportive. But who knows… That’s the opinion of my generation and maybe our children will say the same things about us as we say about our parents. The future is going to show the truth.