Just Allow the Children to Roughen Up Their Feet, to Sweat a Little Bit Then!

Translated…

A lot of parents are used to providing “the BEST” for their young: they would BUST their heads, just to get their young into that high-end kindergarten, and placed the registry of their children in an all-star district, buying up the suites, to ensure a spot at that all-star high school, everything, for the sake, of getting into an ideal college after the implementations of the reforms in education; at the same time, every single talent you can ever imagine, dance, music, art, the parents would throw down CASH for their young to go on foreign tours to other countries too.

On the one hand, the parents were cultivating their kids to be avid test takers, talented in everything, on the other hand, they’re, giving everything material to their kids that the children asked for, until one day, they’d found, all of a sudden, that their adult children had become, strangers to them—never knew what it felt to be hungry, couldn’t understand the trials of life in other people’s lives, not knowing how their elders, ancestors, had worked through the harder times.  And, the “adults” who’d become adults from this sort of raising, has a bigger chance to become the colder-blooded, the less capable group; for those who lacked self-control, they’d spent ALL their wages before the end of the month, and in worse conditions, they’d become, bloodsuckers.

The writer, Zhi-Fang Chen once described how the Greek trained their emperors, “From the hardened reality, broken the feet, then, learning, to stand back up again, making a living, from the sweat that started rolling down from one’s own forehead.  The eastern dragons kept constantly changing the ruling dynasties, they just, never understand the ironclad rule of “rich not beyond three generations”. …

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The rules that the Greek philosophers took, to train their leaders of the next generations, has a couple of key points.  That environment meant you needed to really experience the hardships of life (the hardness of life and reality), the process needed to be cruel and strict (breaking one’s own bones, then, standing back up again), even as one is born as an heir of a kingdom, one still needed to make her/his own way (making one’s own money to survive!).  The environment, the process, the pride, self-reliance, all of these philosophies in making of an emperor had its reasons of being set down, but, it’s hard, to follow through.  Who would want their own young to weather through the difficulties of life?  Who would want their young, to endure through the hardships of life, to get beaten, then, come back, to be, tested some more, becoming the real man of steel?  Being noble, we’d told our younger generations: that the cultivation of pride, is not based off of birth right, but based off of a skill that one can live off of.  All you parents in Taiwan, are you willing to, allow your own children to be tested by life’s many trials?  Starting today, watch your children as they broke their bones, and start sweating over their own lives!

So, this is telling you parents, to LET go, to NOT hover over those little boys or girls anymore, I mean hello???  All you people are old enough, in college, and yet, you still lacked the basic living skills, how to do the laundry (I never had to do that at home, my mama does it for me!!!), how to pay the bills, ‘cuz it’d all been, taken care of when you were living at home, well, you’re NOT, living AT home anymore, are you, college-age babies, so, time to GROW up already!!!