托福写作高分范文：父母从孩子身上学到的更多

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　　题目：
        　　Parents learn more from children than children learn from parents
        　　范文：
        　　While children open the eyes of their parents to many things, it is a
specious claim to say that they are the greater teachers. Children learn more
from parents than their parents could ever learn from them.
        　　First of all, children’s brains are undeveloped sponges and more receptive
to learning than their adult parents’. Physiologically, the adult brain is less
able to learn new things and more set in its ways; you cannot teach an old dog
new tricks. On the other hand, children can learn new languages, do better at
chess and the Game of Go, because their brains are open to learning new
concepts. They can think outside the box, because “the box” has not even been
built yet.
        　　Second of all, children who have educated parents speaking with wide
vocabularies are more likely to be successful and to master their native tongue.
A study showing that smart children help their parents be more successful would
be preposterous. For example, infants and even older children cannot teach their
parents’ vocabulary at the same rate as their parents can teach them, despite
being able to pepper their speech with the like, totally awesome slang of the
day.
        　　At last, we must admit that experience counts for something. There is
knowledge and then there is wisdom that comes from having seen and done things.
Children do not have the years of accumulated experience that their parents
inevitably have. These “life lessons” are the sort of thing parents want to pass
on to their children. In contrast, children are not teaching their parents not
to touch the hot pan or to look both ways before crossing the road—essential
bits of knowledge that most of us learn from our parents.
        　　The nascent brains of youth are more susceptible to learning from parents
and we know that early childhood education has a lasting impact on children,
just as we know that essential lessons are passed from parents to children not
vice versa. In summation, parents are the superior teachers in this
relationship.