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Does parental permissiveness affect children's development?
Arguments
1. The excessive pennissiveness of present-day parents is doing more harm
than good to children and society as well.
2. Children should develop the habit of working and living independently
and, meanwhile, practise the virtue of being filial to their parents.
3. Children who have a surfeit of happiness in their childhood often emerge
like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.
4. The fact that young people nowadays are self-centred, indifferent and
inconsiderate of others is largely the outcome of parental permissiveness in
their childhood.
5. Parental authority in a family helps a child to develop his character
healthily.
6. Parents should exercise strict discipline over their children because,
the more permissive the parents are, the more rebellious against their parents
the children will become.
7. Lavish care and excessive permissiveness will only give rise to hedonism
among the younger generation.
8. If one lets the child do whatever he wants to, he will ruin the child
for life.
9. We have to admit the fact that we now have got a generation of spoilt,
selfcentred brats with no respect for their elders.
10. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our age is largely due to
parental pennissiveness.
Counter-argmnents
1. More care for children is not the same as permissiveness to them.
2. The truth is that parents nowadays do not take enough care of their
children and often neglect their development because the parents are only
interested in their careers.
3. Parents are not at all permissive to their children. Violence often
takes place in families in which children are abused.
4. Only a relaxed family atmosphere can help the physical and psychological
growth of children.
5. To let children do what they like contributes to their independence and
competence in their adult lives.
6. It is unfair to blame parents for the spread of juvenile delinquency.
There are a lot of other causes involved.
7. Many cases show that children leave home and become members of street
gangs just because they can not bear authoritarian control over them by their
parents.
8. Strict discipline does not always work in terms of developing children's
personal qualities. Too much pressure on children leads to rebellion and other
extreme actions.
9. Parents are not justified in using violence to keep discipline and
maintain their authority over the children.
10. Children are human beings, too. They need to be protected instead of
being frequently scolded or physically abused.
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:24:51