Monday, March 4, 2013

TOEFL Write-up

It is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.


          
            Where would you want your child to be raised? In a city or a countryside? Some people would say city, since they can have a social life and have a better education and whatever reasons they may have. I would rather raise my child in the countryside. Where you want to raise your child will affect they're life a lot so you must think properly about where you want your child's childhood to take place. There are several reasons I would raise my child in the countryside.

            Teenagers nowadays are not trained to live the hard life and later in the future suffer from what they have to adjust to. Living in the countryside helps your kid to mature better in such a way that you are independent, you learn to live life the hard way so you wont have trouble later. You don't get spoilt by your parents either. Children have to live their life the way their parents live which is a simple life. They're lifestyle may not be as good as in the cities but at least they don't have problems with money and how they're living. Some of their parents job must be farming for a living, selling those crops and earning for a living, their children then follow what they're parents do and how they're parents taught them to. In the cities the child sees other people having gadgets or high technology products and you might not be able to afford but somehow you must get it for your child so that they will be satisfied, that way the child gets spoilt and thinks whatever he/she asks from the parents they will get but in the future they must learn to earn their own money. 

           Regarding education and the environmental influence on the child, countryside does have education, maybe not as good as cities do but they obviously. That doesn't mean your child doesn't learn anything, nowadays education in the countryside has also grown a lot. They have better schools, teachers from cities or abroad, and many other facilities. Some kids are home-schooled, since they're parents are educated, they're parents can teach them what they need to know in life and other things. Learning in the countryside also helps you learn more about how you have to live your life in difficulty if needed. You don't only learn different subjects but learn real life skills. As for the environmental influence your kid might have is bad, because of how the society is nowadays. When your child makes friends its important to stick to the group where you know your limits and your friends know theirs, peer pressure is very great among friends, your child's friends might pressure him/her to do some bad things. That’s why in the countryside kids there are more innocent and connect with nature more than hang out with friends.

        In the cities health issues are very great. Pollution is in the air everyday, which spoils your health. Pollution can be very dangerous at some point. When there’s rain, it falls down as acid; you can get certain diseases from the rain and the pollution in the air. In the countryside there is not much pollution since not many cars and not many factories are set up there. Countryside is much safer than big cities where there's even pollution in the rain that comes down as precipitation.

        In conclusion I would say that I would raise my child in the countryside since there’s less hassle. You don't have to worry about the bad influence their friends might have on your child. The pollution is less, your child learns to live life the hard way and learns more that way. I think the best part of living in the countryside is that you can connect with nature and learn all about it. As it is nowadays global warming is affecting the earth and people really don't care about how our world will just sink. It is better to stay in the countryside with all the trees to give you good oxygen.