Imagine this. Your daughter is yet to enroll into Standard One and you are sending her to tuition class for English, Mathematics, Bahasa Malaysia, and Science and not to forget all those swimming class, piano class as well as Tae Kwan Do class. Wow, amazing. Not yet schooling and still at the age of 6, the schedule seems pretty tight (just like mommy and daddy’s schedules).
Now stop imagining and here is a real question for you as parents. Are your children enjoying their life as per the above story? Congratulations to you if they are. It shows that you are a tremendously a caring parents. It also shows that your children are going to be a very successful adult when he or she grows up.
Let’s cut the crap and go straight to the point. Weird, we don’t actually get it. Why every parent (especially the ones with money) in Malaysia is pushing their own children so hard on their studies and curricular at their early age (we heard as early as 4 years young) until it compromises those children’s own time to play? If we are not mistaken, children and playing are inseparable and shouldn’t be separated. Come on, those children are still babies. Don’t you think we should give them a chance and time for them to play and enjoying themselves? They would love to play with their toys, with their friends and also with their parents. Why on earth are we pushing them so hard at this stage? Can’t we start with a moderate kind of push and staggeringly increase the pressure along the way.
Do you like being pushed by your parents or your boss, or your spouse to do this and that? Obviously you are not going to like it. Having a back-to-back schedule day in day out will definitely burn you out. If you live like this for years, don’t you think one day you’d want to rebel against them crawling your way out of that situation? This is what your children are feeling at this moment.
Yes, we know that the world is getting crazier. This crazy world somehow creates competitions, to get great results. Lately, competitions among students are getting stiffer and tougher every year. The objective is to just simply get a place in a university, a good university.
To get a foot into the university requires students to achieve close to straight As for their UPSR, PMR and SPM examinations as well as O Level and A Level. This again put tremendous pressure on our children. And yes, we also know that the stress a child will have to bear when his or her results is not as good as his or her classmates. At the end, these students will be pretty disappointed if they missed the boat, not able to join their friends into the university.
Now stop imagining and here is a real question for you as parents. Are your children enjoying their life as per the above story? Congratulations to you if they are. It shows that you are a tremendously a caring parents. It also shows that your children are going to be a very successful adult when he or she grows up.
Let’s cut the crap and go straight to the point. Weird, we don’t actually get it. Why every parent (especially the ones with money) in Malaysia is pushing their own children so hard on their studies and curricular at their early age (we heard as early as 4 years young) until it compromises those children’s own time to play? If we are not mistaken, children and playing are inseparable and shouldn’t be separated. Come on, those children are still babies. Don’t you think we should give them a chance and time for them to play and enjoying themselves? They would love to play with their toys, with their friends and also with their parents. Why on earth are we pushing them so hard at this stage? Can’t we start with a moderate kind of push and staggeringly increase the pressure along the way.
Do you like being pushed by your parents or your boss, or your spouse to do this and that? Obviously you are not going to like it. Having a back-to-back schedule day in day out will definitely burn you out. If you live like this for years, don’t you think one day you’d want to rebel against them crawling your way out of that situation? This is what your children are feeling at this moment.
Yes, we know that the world is getting crazier. This crazy world somehow creates competitions, to get great results. Lately, competitions among students are getting stiffer and tougher every year. The objective is to just simply get a place in a university, a good university.
To get a foot into the university requires students to achieve close to straight As for their UPSR, PMR and SPM examinations as well as O Level and A Level. This again put tremendous pressure on our children. And yes, we also know that the stress a child will have to bear when his or her results is not as good as his or her classmates. At the end, these students will be pretty disappointed if they missed the boat, not able to join their friends into the university.
So now, taking into considerations of the amounting pressure of competitions in your children’s education environment versus your children’s future we will leave the decision to you. As their father and mother, we still believe one thing – Parents knows best..
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