Leading by example here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The leader of the Hsinchu Parent-Child Learning Group, Tseng, is the children’s “Superman Older Brother”, “Because I was beaten to submission when I was growing up, I’d decided to, NEVER use corporal punishment on my own children.”, he said, the biggest challenge since he’d become the leader of this group is learn to communicate with the group members who are already parents, “especially when I had never been a father”.
“Superman older brother, let’s play fish; Superman older brother, look at my new doll………”, the thirty-six year-old Tseng is the king of children, his arms are filled with the “artwork” of all the children, made with markers. Every time there’s a meeting, he was always, pulled and tugged by the kids, and, the corner of his sleeves had children, hanging on them, he’d bent down to hear the children out, not yet married without children of his own, he has a way with children.
Tseng graduated from the electrical engineering majors of the Transportation University, in his freshman year, a classmate invited him to get involved in the Humanistic Foundation’s counselor training, he was moved by the values of the foundation, and, during the summers and winters of his college and graduate school years, he’d gotten involved as a camp counselor, and, after he graduated, he’d struggled between his area of study and his true interests, in the end, he’d not followed the expectation of the society, and chosen the latter.
Three years ago, Tseng was able to set up the “Learning Group of Children & Parents” with the help of the founder of “Big Feet, Little Feet Learning Together”, set up the Learning Group of Children & Parents in the Hsinchu area, “Not teaching the kids, but to offer assistance from the side”, he said, in the first year, he’d kept discovering the societal pressures that the parents faced, as parents, they didn’t want to punish the young, it’s just that they’re faced with many difficulties,, “So we need to help them get to the core of the problem, and think of ways to resolve it together”.
“It is precious, for the childhoods to be filled with cries and temper tantrums, it’s a rite of passage”, Tseng said, that some had doubted that if no physical punishments were enforced, the kids may not learn the rules well, but, the rules should not be reinforced with force, instead, a lesson learned, from the interactions with the outside world, as a leader of the group, he and other parents all played helping roles, so the children could have a safe place, with the respects of their families, to start to interact with the outside world.
This, is still a view of parenting, from someone who’s NEVER been a parent at all, and, this man is right on the money too, and, instead of giving in to the demands of the society, he’d chosen, to follow his own dreams, and, he’s making a TON of change in the lives of all who interacted with him.
Life, the Obstacle Course 