2017托福写作范文《培养孩子》
托福考试的备考，作文是不能忽略的重点。尤其是托福作文经常会与一些社会上的热点话题联系在一起。因此考生在备考时，可多练习一些热点话题的托福写作。下面为大家带来一篇讨论培养孩子的2017托福写作范文，供大家参考。
Agree or disagree: It is easier for parents to raise their children today than 50 years before.
Society keeps progressing, so does the literacy level. Then appears a controversy whether raising children becomes easier today than 50 years ago. As for me, I cast serious doubt on it and I think there are many external factors leading the education of young people to be intricate than before.
Firstly, too much reliance on the high technology is to the detriment of children’s growth. Specifically speaking, parents can hardly supervise and restrict their children’s behavior. Examples happening around us can be seen quite often. One sensational piece of News last year was reported about three girls who saw an advertisement posted on an encrypted website about the professions provided by ISIS that, as everyone knows, is a self-proclaimed nation but actually a terrorism organization and finally joined in the group successfully. The horror hit their parents and local government manifested that the supervision on Internet needs to be strengthened and there was no updated reports about it. Except for that, the phenomena about teenagers’ addiction to video games have swept all over the world. Even some college students cannot resist the lure from the virtual world and adolescent obesity can also be partly ascribed to their spending lots of time watching TV programs. Accordingly, technological advancement has already increased the difficulties of managing children.
Secondly, economic growth, overall speaking, improves average citizens’ well-being. However, the ensuing enormous pressure has made it necessary for every common family to fight for a living. In the last century, it could be commonly seen in China that parents made a living in the big cities and had to leave their children in their hometown that would be raised by their grandparents and the generation gap and the stereotyped concepts of last old generations were a huge obstacle to educate children. In the recent decade, the situation has become ameliorated, however, the pressure keeps rising and parens have to be fully devoted to their career. Thus, the time spent with their children could be extremely limited. For instance, a computer programmer is supposed to spend at least 9 hours dealing with his job and staying with his families appears to be impractical. Consequently, raising children becomes much more difficult than before partly because of huge pressure from the society.
Admittedly, the level of education at schools has experienced an increase. Thus, some people may argue that students will become more autonomous and self-disciplined. However, those people may fail to take into account the fact that current public education system lays much more emphasis on the development of students’ academic capabilities and downplays the importance of cultivating their personalities and characteristics. Besides, students are also under enormous pressure from both teachers and their peers and they should be taken good care of by their parents.
In a word, it is totally a different story when it refers to raising children compared with 5 decades ago.
附：托福写作技巧之“破题”技巧
很多同学在写托福、GRE的作文时遇到的第一个问题是如何“破题”，面对作文题时，思路无法打开，不知道从何处下手。而新四的`课文则提供了高超的“破题”范本。以第五课《青年》(Youth)为例，作者在讨论代沟问题、为年轻人辩护时，开篇就指明了问题的根本所在：Let’s get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings----people just like their elders。
作者接着指明两者之间的唯一差别就是：年轻人前程似锦，而老年人一切辉煌都已成过眼云烟。这样，下文的论证就有了坚实的基础。我们在写作时，可以参考这种方法，在开篇把问题的根本所在讲明白，这样下文就有话可说，而且容易让人信服。新四中类似的“破题”方法还有很多，再比如24课《美》(beauty)：作为一个极其抽象的概念，“美”究竟是什么本来就很难写清楚，而作者在第一段就给“美”下了巧妙的定义：美总会让人想到超越我们俗世的另外一个世界。在这个框架中讨论“美”，就可以有的放矢了。