Cynthia's Timed Writing #2

Timed Writing #2

When people were young, they desired to be good children at the most of time. In ancient China, parents hoped that their children would be honesty, brave and smart. For boys, they should have a successful job and be gentlemen. For girls, they had to be an expert at household and be ladies. Parents and traditional Chinese culture thought that these are very important and precious qualities. As time quickly passes, in modern society, some qualities such as smart, brave still are good and basic parts in children’s lives, but some have changed. In this essay, the writer will list three changes and explain the reasons.

First, household is not only the women’s good qualities. In past, men never took care of the household such as tidy up bed, cooking meal; they thought these works might hurt their respect. In contrast, doing household work is a basic and necessary skill of living. Please try to imagine, if a single man does not clean this home, he would be living in such terrible condition. At the same time, his image will drop down; no ladies will appreciate partners like that. Therefore, no matter whether it is boys or girls, when they are young, their parents will tell them how to clean their house and themselves.

Second, girls should be independent. In ancient China, girls had no right to leave home and have jobs. All their time, they just stayed at home, and all their money came from parents and husbands. If they were not rich, they might be bullied by their husbands. If they had a quantity of money and did meet the right man, they also had same situation. However, nowadays, women can work, and sometimes, they must work. Women need keep their economic independence because if they just have income, they have the right to talk some as men.

Third, children do not have to listen to parents’ opinions, especially in marriage, when they grow up. Even one hundred years ago, parents could decide children’s marriage and ignore their children’s opinions.  At that period, most children who they would marry, they simply accepted the person who was appointed by their parents. There were many tragedies at the age. Nevertheless, today a child have more choices to choose which boy or girl may be suitable. Maybe some argue that this is a representation that children lost the loyalty to parents. However, children should not keep the loyalty to parents all the time, devotion does not guarantee their future happiness.

In conclusion, many qualities have not changed, the changes just are the little part of it. In China, people still keep it and teach it to the next generation.