My Daughter’s Homework Assignment with Me, Between a Father & Daughter

How you can interact with your offspring, translated…

I’d been shouldering my daughter’s math and sciences assignments since the beginning, but, since she hit puberty, she’d rarely come to me for her homework assignment questions, and sometimes, when I wanted to help her, she’d shut me down.  She was in the business schools in college, and as a manager, I’d feel that urge, to teach her something, the need, to share with her, my real-life experiences on the matter, but, she’s not at all, interested, in my sharing my thoughts and experiences, and I feel, very defeated because of this.

That day, I’d gotten an e-mail from her out of the blue,, she said, that her management course, the professor wanted the students to interview someone who’s in a managerial position, and that it’s best, if it’s with the parents.  Now is my chance, I’d written her back, asked her the purpose of her assignment, set up an outline, and, had her, sign up for an appointment with my secretary, everything IS business like

In the process of the interview, she’d asked me about how I’d chosen my university, and my field of work, and gotten an in-depth story on how my business worked, my work duties, and the contents of my promotions, and asked me how I viewed my company, as well as my thoughts about the world, and my plans for my future too.  It’s been such a long time, since I could talk with her in-depth like this.

She’d listened closely, and asked questions from time to time, inquired me about my views of life, for instance, how I am able to balance work and family, how my growth in work had affected the way I’d educated my children, and how it’d shaped my expectations for them, along with the memorable things that happened to me in different stages of my life, etc., etc., etc.  It feels, as if, other than getting to know my past, my daughter also wanted to dig up something about herself too.  This, was an extraordinary interview, it’d made me realized, that there are, a lot of things, I’d never really shared with my daughter, that’s been kept, inside for so long, and, all of a sudden, she’s all grown up, and moved out of the house.

Toward the end of the interview, she’d thanked me, for taking the time for this interview, and thanked me for giving to her, how I’d enriched the lives of my family members.  It’d moved me, my daughter really, is all grown up!

From after her elementary years, I’d stopped helping her with her homework assignments, and, unthinkably, many years later, the homework from a Wharton Business School professor had, allowed me, to find the time I’d once shared with my child back again; it’d also, led my daughter back, into my own world, helped her gain a better understand of her father.  From the point of view of a college student, examining the past, she could understand better, the purpose of her father’s work now.

Later on, my daughter gloated to me about how she’d gotten an A+ on the assignment, I’d told her, that it was because of how my experience was very fulfilling, but she’d insisted, that it’s because of how well-written her report was.  At this moment, she seemed, to have gotten turned back into, that little girl, after making a high grade on her test, bugged me to give her some candy bars as reward instead of a college student.

And so, this, was the experience, that allowed you, to reconnect with your own daughter, because as children grow up, they’d needed your help on their homework assignments less and less, and, as they got older, they can find the resources that they needed themselves, and, this opportunity for an interview from your child had brought the two of you, closer together again.