剑桥10 谢振礼 雅思范文: 辨别是非
Cambridge English 10
IELTS Writing Task 2
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Topic:
It is important for children to learn the difference between right and wrong at an early age. Punishment is necessary to help them learn this distinction. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? What sort of punishment should parents and teachers be allowed to use to teach good behavior to children?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Essay:
When raising children in a “me-centered” culture, it can be challenging to teach them the distinction between right and wrong. Should parents use punishment to help their children learn this distinction? While most parents would agree that “moral” lessons are important to young children, where opinions are divided is about whether or not it is necessary to punish children when they deserve it.
There are several points stressing the importance of instilling moral values, such as responsibility, respect, honesty and kindness to children at an early age. Parents want their children to grow up knowing really what is right and what is wrong, with the moral courage to act on what they know. For instance, children need to learn to take responsibility for their actions so that they do not become adults believing nothing is ever their fault. As well, being respectful to their parents is right, therefore children who are allowed to be disrespectful to their own parents will not have true respect for anyone in the future. Likewise, children should be taught the virtue of honesty in the hope that they will refrain from lying to others. Furthermore, children should learn the moral principle that being kind is right and being mean to one another is wrong.
However, there are arguments about the wisdom of punishing children for misbehaving at home. Nowadays, although corporal punishment like spanking for children is no longer allowed in schools, it remains a topic that generates much controversy. On the one hand, child experts point out that physical punishment is not effective and puts children at risk for a number of negative outcomes. On the other hand, spanking is being practiced in many homes because it is still believed that those children who are not spanked will grow up to be “spoiled.” Regarding this debate, a better approach seems to take the middle ground, where there is a combination of firm discipline and caring love, without the pain or fear of a spanking. That being a personal decision, parents may ask themselves: When children are doing wrong actions, do young kids need love or do they deserve some sort of punishment?
In conclusion, it is up to parents to decide whether or not to punish their children as a method of teaching them the distinction between right and wrong. Love being the same, parents may “spare the rod” or spank the child. At this point, paren must strike a very wise balance.
