Essay #476 "Home and School Education" 07.05.19 Historically parents are those people who pass their experience on their children and for a long time they were the only people who did this. However, with the development of our society people have introduced educational institutions which help children to acquire academic knowledge and beside this they also introduce them with basic social norms and customs. Thus, over recent decades the position of parents as teachers has changed dramatically. First of all, in terms of academic knowledge parents loses professional teachers in most cases as they cannot be compared with people who have a professional preparation in order to teach kids. Another point is that no one can know everything and therefore, parents are able to teach their children only about some basic things, or things that they know very well, often this is quite narrow and professional knowledge. Another point, is that parents are always biased and they have hard times to assess the progress of their kids. This works both ways, either they not pushing enough and do not allow their kids to fully open up their potential, or they overdo things and put their kids under great stress. Thus, this is always better when other people who have not any preconceptions to do this job. Finally, in spite of the fact that most teaching duties now are in the responsibilities of teachers, parents should not neglect additional opportunity to educate their kids. This would be great not only for children’s development overall, but also can create a really tight bonds between parents and children. That is why, parents should pay a very close attention to the education of their children and help them whenever they can. To conclude, in spite of the fact that most duties about children’s education now performed by professional teachers parents should not dismiss this opportunity to get closer with their kids. In most cases people should not try to teach their kids entirely by themselves, but they definitely should help them in this process. Only by doing this will it be possible to create a healthy family atmosphere and help kids to use their full potential.