Children are influenced by their peers or by their parents.?

I agree with that most of the children are influenced to a much greater extent by their peers than by their parents. The children in one class have the same age in Taiwan. Thus, when chatting with each other, they can find out their similar interests. For example, children may be addicted to online games, soap operas, cartoons, while adults do not know any of it. That will contribute to a child choose to chat with his/her classmates rather than his/her parents. Another example is that while some topics are hard to express to their parents such as their love affair problem. They will choose the one who can understand their circumstances to talk with. These examples result in lacking of communication between parents and their children. Lacking of communication then becomes a wide gap. Teens may start to think their peers are more reliable. Therefore, children may influence each other’s thoughts, behavior, and attitude in an unconscious way. Second, a youth has limited to absorb some information while staying at home. During school time, they can exchange some attractive ideas which may cause some youths to imitate. Because they think it is funnier and fascinating. Since parents are much more solemn to talk with, teens enjoy getting along with their peers. Third, teens spend much more time getting along with their classmates than their parents. Because of some parents’ job, they do not have enough time to spend with their children. When the class dismissed, children are sent to after-school class directly. A family has no time to be with each other. So one of the reasons why children are influenced by their peers is because of they have got no time to get along with their parents.
In my opinion, a child’s success in school and in life can be both influenced by peers and by parents. While a child can imitate actions, they can learn something useful from their classmates. For example, by a constructive competition, pupils can find out their drawbacks in learning. If two pupils are at the same level, they can do more efforts against each other. That will lead to a win-win situation. Besides, when a child faces some obstacles which cannot be solved by their peers easily, they will ask their parents for help. For instance, a youth wants to learn something but he/she has a financial problem. The one he/she will look for help is their parents. Or if they were frustrated when learning a new thing, parents can give some advices instead of mocking. Consequently, I think both peers and parents influence children directly.