You Owe Much More!

My day started at 5:30am on this stormy Wed. After a full 

day at work and two hours of crazy commute back, I made

guacamole and mom made soup and we had a nice supper. Finally,

time to take a little rest. Or so I thought.

 

The minute I put up my feet on the stool, Tim delivered his

math homework for review: "My math. Please." matter-of-factly.

 

"Lord, I don't owe this much!" moaned I in exaggerated despair.

 

"No. You don't." came the swift and hard-hearted retort: "You owe much more!"

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回复 '暖冬cool夏' 的评论 : Thank you very much, 暖冬，for sharing your family experience on kid education. That's priceless! High school sounds daunting; I'll give up my job if necessary;-)

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回复 '7grizzly' 的评论 :Don't get me wrong. Actually the earlier your involvement, the better. Unlike in China, teachers take care of everything. Here, parents take more responsibilities than the teachers, at least this was the situation in the public school with my daughter. You will see how much you have to invest in high school, your time and your money. I understand that Your blog is picked up automatically in a certain column/forum, but I believe the hits are not automatic. Anyway, this is not important:)

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回复 '暖冬cool夏' 的评论 : Thank you very much for reading and catching "super"! Yes. I think being left alone was not a bad thing. We as parents do a disservice by being overly present and concerned out of our own insecurity.

I don't think the blog is any more popular. The search engines are automatically fetching the posts for indexing.

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Yah, it has rained for a week here too.Tim is funny. Guess what? When my husband finally jumped in to try training my daughter's math in high school, he was distraught with many of her bad habits. He told me more than once that his Dad should be grateful for having a son like him, as he was entirely on his own and his Dad never worried a single day for his study. Btw, the word supper has two p's, now that your blog is so popular:)