Should children obey the rules? - Day 3 IELTS Writing(translation) This is a translation from Chinese. (Question) Some people think that children should obey the rules or do what their parents and teachers want them to do. Other people think children controlled too much cannot deal with problems themselves in adulthood. Discuss both views and state your own opinion. (Answer) Generally, children should obey the rules at home and at school. Sometimes, it's probably important for them to follow strict disciplines, but I think it may have a negative effect on their abilities on problem-solving. The main purpose of rules is to let children understand that there are responses they should take for what they do, so as to help them form a good behavior at an early age. Unlike adults, children cannot tell in what their behavior could result. By applying rules, they will learn how to be a decent man. For instances, kids should learn how to show good manners, how to be polite to others. All those knowledge will play an important role in their adult life. By contract, without rules to keep them from talking dirty and bullying, they will not be able to cope with social relationships in adulthood. However, rules do not always have a good impact on children's growth, especially when there are strict rules that parents force them to follow. Because it may lead to situations like heavy dependence on rules to make decisions and a lack of ability to solve problems by themselves. There are cases that without parents' arrangement, strictly ruled kids do not know how to do time management and do not know what to do at work. In this respect, they will less likely to be successful in their future career. And to follow rules harms children's imaginations without which they cannot find varieties of approaches to tackle tough issues. It is because, under rules, they are not encouraged to do as they think and they are afraid of being punished for breaking the rules. Think about that if students are told that there is only one way to solve a math problem, there will be very few students who attempt to solve it in different ways. The problems at work are more complicated than a math problem at school, people without imaginations cannot solve them.