I was often asked by my aunt for how to communicate with my cousin, because she believed that her son tended not to talk with her rather than his classmates. In fact, just like my cousin, accumulating concerns about whether children's parents or their peers showed more crucial in children's way to success in school. Some of us may confer their parents the credit of success for their long-lasting care. However, as far as i am concerned, the classmates of the children should be more vital. Not only because of the children themselves, but also because of the environment they lives. 
First of all, Having generation gap between the parents and their children, one's mother or father understand their children no better than children's companions. Even on the same thing could they hold totally unlikely point of views. In the knowledge the children have learned, parents may own a different recognition. However, the classmates of children would stay in the same level with each other. therefor, communication between peers tend to be more frequent and easy. then children would be influenced considerably by the talks and questions of their companions. one good example of this would be myself. When i was in the middle school, i usually asked my desk-mate math problems. the reason why i did not ask my dad, who is a professor of a famous university, is he often lectured to me with many equations i had not learned yet. On the contrary, my friends could solve the problem in my familiar way.