托福考試的備考，作文是不能忽略的重點。尤其是託福作文經常會與一些社會上的`熱點話題聯繫在一起。因此考生在備考時，可多練習一些熱點話題的託福寫作。下面爲大家帶來一篇討論培養孩子的2017託福寫作範文，供大家參考。
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：託福寫作技巧之“破題”技巧
很多同學在寫託福、GRE的作文時遇到的第一個問題是如何“破題”，面對作文題時，思路無法打開，不知道從何處下手。而新四的課文則提供了高超的“破題”範本。以第五課《青年》(Youth)爲例，作者在討論代溝問題、爲年輕人辯護時，開篇就指明瞭問題的根本所在：Let’s get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings----people just like their elders。
作者接着指明兩者之間的唯一差別就是：年輕人前程似錦，而老年人一切輝煌都已成過眼雲煙。這樣，下文的論證就有了堅實的基礎。我們在寫作時，可以參考這種方法，在開篇把問題的根本所在講明白，這樣下文就有話可說，而且容易讓人信服。新四中類似的“破題”方法還有很多，再比如24課《美》(beauty)：作爲一個極其抽象的概念，“美”究竟是什麼本來就很難寫清楚，而作者在第一段就給“美”下了巧妙的定義：美總會讓人想到超越我們俗世的另外一個世界。在這個框架中討論“美”，就可以有的放矢了。
