All parents in the world understand well that the children need to be educated in the proper way and as soon as possible, especially in childhood and school age. Parents are the first and the most important teachers for children beside the teachers in school. As we known, the behavior and attitude of children in the future is a result of education from their parents. I had a friendly talk with some foreigner parents in past, and I have found some main different points of the way to educate the children between the Vietnamese parents and Foreigner parents. I recognized that the parents in the US, who mostly agree for the children goes to work part-time after learning time in high school, while the Vietnamese parents never want their children
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As same as US parents, they also want the children have to learn for knowledge, do practice for skill. But, in fact, most of the Vietnamese parents often give a punishment if the grade in a class is low. My nephew was punished by spending a whole day in home for learning by heart the long poem to get high score on the exam, and prohibited from enjoying any outside activities next few days. The parents feel are ashamed with other parents if their student is evaluated lower than others in the class. I can feel that, the Vietnamese parent will assess the result of the children based on the ranking of the grade among the pupils in the class, and how many certificate of distinction the student achieved in each semester, while the foreigner parent focus on how the knowledge and how improving the student got. And, in dealing with any mistakes or failures of student, the Vietnamese parents mostly apply corporal punishment, while others use constructive punishment to …show more content…
All parents who always want and hope the children will be getting a good job with high salary to cover their own life in the future. They also often said to the children about this “gratitude” to parent. However, the understanding and showing of gratitude is too much different. Most of Vietnamese parents always wish to live together with their children and to be cared for old-age, while foreigner parents respect the individual right of children, and never having a wish to live together with their children in old age. My old friend in Vietnam, he shared that he needs to save more money, for buying big house when he retires, the main reason is he wants to live with his son and his grandchildren. As many of generation living under one roof, it means “Happy Family”. But, another my friend, who is American, he said that he will buy a small house for living, and will not live together with his son family, he does not want to bother his children. The main responsibility of his son is caring of his own
As same as US parents, they also want the children have to learn for knowledge, do practice for skill. But, in fact, most of the Vietnamese parents often give a punishment if the grade in a class is low. My nephew was punished by spending a whole day in home for learning by heart the long poem to get high score on the exam, and prohibited from enjoying any outside activities next few days. The parents feel are ashamed with other parents if their student is evaluated lower than others in the class. I can feel that, the Vietnamese parent will assess the result of the children based on the ranking of the grade among the pupils in the class, and how many certificate of distinction the student achieved in each semester, while the foreigner parent focus on how the knowledge and how improving the student got. And, in dealing with any mistakes or failures of student, the Vietnamese parents mostly apply corporal punishment, while others use constructive punishment to …show more content…
All parents who always want and hope the children will be getting a good job with high salary to cover their own life in the future. They also often said to the children about this “gratitude” to parent. However, the understanding and showing of gratitude is too much different. Most of Vietnamese parents always wish to live together with their children and to be cared for old-age, while foreigner parents respect the individual right of children, and never having a wish to live together with their children in old age. My old friend in Vietnam, he shared that he needs to save more money, for buying big house when he retires, the main reason is he wants to live with his son and his grandchildren. As many of generation living under one roof, it means “Happy Family”. But, another my friend, who is American, he said that he will buy a small house for living, and will not live together with his son family, he does not want to bother his children. The main responsibility of his son is caring of his own