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A Letter from My Son

Hot 1978 views. 2018-3-1 15:46

I received a letter from my 10-year-old son.

 

Basically, it is an accusation, hidden in a careful, slightly bitter tone, of the two crimes I’ve made. One, I enrolled him in too many after-school classes. Second, I gave him too much homework during Winter Holiday.

 

This letter sent me through two states and finally upon a third. After my first indignation and then a bit amusement, I was soon consumed with a sense of helplessness.

 

There were a lot to say to defend myself. I could be persuasive, touching, hortatory, expostulating if necessary. However, something in this letter was pulling my heartstrings. At last I said nothing and then I gave him a hug and one day off.

 

“In doing so, I let my best time slip.” He wrote this in his letter.

 

Childhood, the best period of a person’s life, is supposed to be happy and carefree. Since when it has become the period that we can’t afford to waste in happy hours, and since when it has been burdened with heavy weight of learning and sharp competitions?

 

Honestly, as a mum, there’s so much to learn and there’s so much I haven’t done good enough.

 

And I always thought that my biggest failure was that I was not strict enough.

 

No matter how I love my son, I know deep inside my heart that he is just an average boy who needs a constant push behind. And at the most of time, I am not tough enough to play that strict parent part.

 

This term I decided to enroll him in a Chinese Class. He is in 5th grade and he really need to improve his grades in Chinese. He is extremely unhappy about that. With Chinese, Math, English and Drawing classes, he almost has no free time at weekends.

 

As a mum, I don’t want to put him under any more pressures, however the reality checks.

 

In Chengdu, only 40% of students can get into high school and about 20% of students can be accepted in key high schools, which means he needs to be the top 3 of ten if he ever wants to get to the colleague.

 

His middle grades in school put him in a dangerous awkward area. And it also forces me to play an iron hand.

Sorry son. I want to tell you something else, but there is just no such thing as “happy learning”. Life sometimes is just not easy. We need to accept that fact and just try to enjoy whatever we’ve got. 


Post comment Comment (2 replies)

Reply nathan_leader 2018-3-3 22:33
Push,push,I Thought our parents aren't pushing us, but we are what we are now. take easy.
Reply nathan_leader 2018-3-3 22:35
I'm a father too. so I konw u. But we should give them what they want to be.

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