Translated…
That day, I’d gone to my son’s open house, and one of the parents made a suggestion, that the instructor should add herself into the class’s LINE group, then, invite the parents in, so the teacher and the parents, as well as the kids can all become, more connected, and if the kids misbehaved, the teacher and the parents can also, tell them to correct themselves right then and there.
The instructor replied, that the last homeroom teacher had similar requests made of her too, but, the students split the groups into forms A and B, A is the “official” version, where the students behaved themselves in their actions and words, posed that “goody-two-shoe” view that the parents expected of their young.
As for form B, it’s the unabridged, unedited version where the kids are free to express themselves freely. But that parent didn’t just give up on her thoughts, kept stating, that if we don’t try it, how do we know, that it won’t work? The mother next to me couldn’t help, but mumbled, “helicopter parent…”, and, I couldn’t help, but smile after I’d heard her.
I recalled how when I was back in middle school, how I’d hated my parents to inquire too much about my personal life too, but, some of the parents had, checked their offspring’s written notes to one another, listened in on their kids’ calls, and even, followed them out, and, this sort of overprotectiveness toward ones’ young is exactly the same as how the parents wanted to be grouped together with their offspring’s social network, isn’t it? It’s just, that the tools we have now, are more advanced is all.
Now, some of the private institutions appeased to the parents, they’d added surveillance cameras in the classes even, for the parents, to keep a close eye on their young in school, but, is this not, an invasion of privacy? Sometimes, we’d allowed the excuses of “love” to override our senses of reasoning.
When the parents forced themselves into the LINE groups of the children, they’d only feed to the kids’ agreeing to the parents openly, but, going against what their parents tell them to do underneath, and exacerbated their negative attitudes, and, those parents who are worrying over their heads, couldn’t even get the real information on their kids. Why not, just turn off this false form of security, stop this remote-controlling behavior, and just, openly discuss the issues with your young instead?
The cell phone alerts are going off, and, the parents’ forum was inviting me in, without hesitation, I’d declined the invites, our dinner table IS the best forum of exchange of thoughts, of interactions, why must we, guess hard at, what each other is thinking, is feeling, through the technological screens?
And so, this mom REFUSED the other parents’ ways of zooming in on their separate young, because she believed, that the BEST way to interact with her own child is by sharing conversations, interacting with her/him, face-to-face, and this, is absolutely CORRECT, because nowadays, with parents, busying about their days, and for the sakes of what??? Putting food on the tables, clothes on our backs? We’d forgotten, that the ONLY thing we need to do, to be closer to our young (collectively speaking, that is…) is by, sitting down, and LISTENING to them, YAP to you, about the goings on of their days, simple as that, and yet, these parents are trying to SPY on their kids, using hi-tech developments??? Give ME a BREAK here!
Life, the Obstacle Course 