Биболетова – 9 класс – Часть 3 – Раздел 2 – Упражнение 73

Parents don’t approve of their children’s friends. I think it’s quite a common problem nowadays. Parents should, of course, be interested in their children’s private life and try to keep them off some dubious companies. But at the same time they shouldn’t tell their children whom to be friends with and whom to be not, because children have their own opinion and interests. They should choose their friends themselves. Firstly, parents’ opinion about their children’s friends can be unjust, because they just don’t know them very well. Secondly, parents can just put their children against them by telling them what they should do and whom they should be friends with. Thirdly, parents should remember that even if they are right when they say that some of their children’s friends are not the best company for their sons or daughters, it would be better if their children would understand it themselves, than they would listen to their parents and after some time they
would accuse their parents of giving them not very good advice.

Parents want their children to obey them. I think it is normal when parents want their children to obey them. They want us to study well, to help them by the house and be patient and obedient. Of course, not all children always do all their parents want them to do and it often causes conflicts between them. To prevent such kind of conflicts, both children and parents should try to understand each other. Parents should, of course, give children some duties from the early age, so that later there would be no conflicts because of that, but they should also give them enough free time for going out or having a rest. As for children, they should also remember that they are the members of the family and this means that they should do what their parents want them to do, because everybody in the family should try to help each other.

Children ignore their parents. This sometimes happens when children are selfish and spoilt. This is often caused by the wrong way of growing up. Parents should always try to be an authority to their children, so that their opinion would very important. Many teenagers want to have a lot of freedom, so parents shouldn’t try.to rule them with a rod of iron, but at the same time they shouldn’t allow their children to do everything they want.

Children/parents shout at their parents/chil-dren. It often happens that parents shout at their children because they don’t always obey them. In this case parents should remember that children have the same rights as adults and that they shouldn’t punish or shout at their children without an important reason. If children shout at their parents, parents should also explain them, that children don’t have any right to do that, because they have given them birth and grown them up.

Children are dependent on their parents. I think that it is also absolutely normal that children are dependent on their parents till the time when they start to earn money themselves. Of course, many children want to be independent and that causes some conflicts. In that case parents shouldn’t be too strict with their children, but at the same time they should not allow the children to do everything they want to do.