Nowadays, an increasing numbers of parents ask college students to act as private tutors to their kids. Like everything else, private tutoring also has advantages and disadvantages. Generally speaking,the advantages can be listed as follows.

First, private tutoring is helpful to the parents.Many parents are so busy with their work that they have no time to help their children with their lessons. Besides, private tutoring is good for the tutors themselves.

They can make some money while providing a service for others. Most important of all, privatetutoringis beneficial for kids. Since the parents can＇t help when the kids have problems, private tutoring seems to be a wise choice.

However, private tutoring also has disadvantages. To begin with, it takes so much of the kid＇s time that they can hardly find time for rest and amusement, which is harmful to their health.

To make matters worse, some tutors have too many kids to teach so that they neglect their studies at school. Worst of ail, some tutors only offer tips for test taking rather than teaching kids what is really needed.

According to the above analysis, it is clear that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

Therefore, it is proposed that great emphasis be laid on the stimulation of the kid＇ s learning and the cultivation of their potential Moreover, kids should be given more time to play so that a new and healthy generation will emerge.