Do you think a good teacher could teach his/her own children successfully?

My mum was a primary school teacher and now i'm a college professor too. Never in my life i felt that my mum taught me anything wrong or could not satisfy my problems. She was favorite in her school and my favorite too. From the moment i became a teacher, i have come to know that students do not feel any responsibility towards their teachers but teachers do feel so. They always care about their well being. I do feel so, even though i'm only negligibly older than them. You can say its my professional responsibility or its my own feeling for them. I'm sure i can teach and grow up my kids in a best way and will remain their guide as long as i'm capable to serve. To grow up your own kids you got to have naturally gained knowledge. Books can not help.

There is a big possibility with that because if the teacher teach with passion for other peoples children then they will also do that to their children and maybe much better because it's their own flesh and blood. The sacrifices they had undergo just to teach other people's kids will be tripled with their own children. But then even do the teachers did their best with their child...there still no guarantee that they will be successful someday. Everything really depends on the child in their willingness to succeed one day. They must exert and effort or else the parents handwork wont paid of.

I don't think a good teacher can teach their own kids. Well basically because they have full authority to their child so, they can lost their patience and it's natural. Maybe some can handle it, but most of them can't.

There must be some parent/teachers that do a good job otherwise homeschooling wouldn't be as successful as it is. But it's probably better if the parent/teacher in public or private school does not have his/her own child as a student. It's hard not to be either too soft or too hard. I remember when my sister was playing basketball for the high school. We always hated it when the ref had a child or children at the school because we knew close calls would go against us just because he was so afraid of appearing bias in our favor.

The patients thing may be true. I teach sunday school and my children are in my class and I am a little tuffer on them and I have little patients with my son in class if he acts up!

Hello i have taught in colleges of my state for over 40 years, all my 3 kids, one daughter and two sons were my students for four years each.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor

Hello zhouxi. Among us teachers, we have a saying that it is difficult to teach your own children well though you do a good job teaching the students. I think that one of the major reasons is our own kids don't consider us to be his teacher and won't listen to us as much as he does to his own teachers...

Hey, it's really a problem! And I think that may be coz, for students, a teacher is just a teacher, he/she is authoritative in a way. But for his/her own children, he/she is not only the teacher but also father/mother. And frankly speaking, their first role to their children is parents, then the role is teacher. It's really hard for both sides to control the two differents roles, facing the same person. Just imagine, teacher is just teacher, when he/she asked you to do something, or blame you when you do something wrong, you will obey it, right? coz he/she is your teacher. But if the teacher is also your parent, maybe you will think, he/she is not seriously. He/she love me very much. So that just my opinion!

Hi zhouxi, Well, I think if one is a good teacher at school then he must be a good teacher for her own children.

you are absolutely right.my father is a good teacher for the other student,but i donot think he is a good teacher for me.he is good at maths and physics,but i am not good at them.i am confused too.best wishes

Sure, a good teacher can teach their children and can bring them to good position in the social world. I mean only a good teacher can do this. When they teach more number of students, sure they can engage the children also. For example, My neighbour is working as a teacher in the private school, handling tenth studied. Their children are now working as a doctor and other studying hotel management. Their children have got the good mother as well as good teacher, that is why they can reach this target. In future, both the children will attain the best position. From my real expereince i can say, good teacher can help their children to attain the target. bye