Busting the MYTHS here, translated…
That day, I’d bumped into my son’s elementary classmate’s mom by chance at the market place. After her kids graduated from the elementary years, she’d accompanied them, to go to Canada to study. It’s been so many years since we last saw one another, and the first thing she’d asked me was, where my son was going to school, then, she’d told me, “Well, all of what you’d given to your child was not wasted!”, right at the moment, I’d felt, that sentiment of being moved by her words, like someone really knows you, it feels, oh so warm!
When my son entered into kindergarten, my husband encouraged me to volunteer as a classroom mom, other than making the Montessori spelling cards, when the kids have field trips, I’d acted as the crossing guard; as my son entered into elementary school, I’d continued my volunteering as a story mom. I’d not missed out on any of my two kids’ growth processes; and the thank-you cards my children made for me, had become, this sweetened marking in my life.
As my son entered into middle school, math became his Achilles’s Heel, I’d worried about his future endlessly. Especially on the day of his graduation, I’d cried hard in bed, missed out on the event. Back then, he’d gotten into an experimental history class of a public high school with almost perfect scores in math, English and Chinese. In his first year of high school, he’d signed up for Japanese as an elective; in his second year, he’d passed the level two Japanese exams; but because his math scores were a bit low, he’d entered into the French majors, and, in his freshman year, he’d received the highest level certification for the Japanese language. On his sophomore year, he’d, made the transfer into the Japanese major, in his junior year, he’d become a foreign exchange student to Japan for one year, and now, he’s working on his master’s degree in Japanese.
Having graduated shortly before, he’s now, responsible for the lesson plans of Japanese language education, and was invited as a translator for the Japanese companies, visiting Taiwan. All of these results, was what was unpredicted by me back then, as I’d worried. A letter from my son back in his middle school years, he’d wrote, “Mom, I know where my interests lie, and what I want to, I will, prove it to you, there’s no need for you and dad to worry over me, okay?”
Yeah, the children are not all the same, and, with the change in time, the future of being a science or liberal arts major, we can’t predict the outcomes as parents; just offer the right amount of cares and concerns to your young, says WHO, children who majored in liberal arts, can’t be as outstanding as the science or engineering majors?
And so, this, should give ALL of you, parents, that needed WAKE up call, shouldn’t it? And, it is time, that all of you, parents with ancient beliefs of, science and engineering majors are the best! Says W-H-O? Liberal arts majors can also have outstanding performances in life too!