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IELTS Essay Question: Kids' behaviors
Sample Answer by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
谢振礼 ielts360toefl@hotmail.com
IELTS 论说文真题：20131130 (General Training) China
>Some people think that parents should strictly control kids' behaviors, while others believe that children should freely behave as they like. Discuss both sides. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
谢振礼 Jeenn Lee Hsieh 实验范文：ielts360toefl@hotmail.com
Parents need discipline strategies to control their children's behaviors and should not allow them to behave freely as they like. For that matter, the traditional "carrot-and-stick" approach has proved to be effective these days. Believe it or not, most children would accept the idea that good behaviors should be rewarded; bad behaviors, punished.
To begin with, being authoritative is said to be an essential part of parental nature and discipline must be routine at home. Contrary to what many might think, kids want parents who are in strict control. Psychologically, no matter how much they try to run the show, children do not really want to be in charge. Unfortunately, today's parents are no longer commanders-in-chief in the family, but children are. This can be seen in the way parents now obey their children. By and by, some children cannot learn how to tell right from wrong because they have not been constantly taught to behave properly. Accordingly, punishing children, whenever necessary, would never fail to be a family policy since kissing parents and scolding parents are good parents, love being the same.
Nevertheless, not all parents would like to believe in punishment as a good means to control their children's behaviors. Curiously, some parents prefer to control themselves, instead. Such parents might think that punishing children could do more harm than good in the end. Thus, the ¨rod¨ is spared, and the child who behaves badly is likely to be ¨spoiled¨, so to speak. Under these circumstances, children's freedom is not limited and their behaviors are completely out of control. Ironically, parents of this kind, who are rewarding their small kids to stand up and talk at an early stage, do not have the authority to order their noisy and naughty children to sit down and shut up at a later stage.
In conclusion, children should be rewarded if they behave well and they should be punished if they behave badly. For parents in general, it is the right thing to do to always put their children's behaviors on the right track. Even children themselves are aware that strict discipline works better than complete freedom. (Essay by Jeenn Lee Hsiehielts360toefl@hotmail.com)
