Uh, wouldn’t that be Y-O-U, ALL their PARENTS??? Translated…
“Hello, is this, XX University? I want to know, where, is the drinking fountain of the dormitories? My son just entered here, he couldn’t find the drinking fountain, wanted me to call and ask………”
“Hello, I’m the parent of a student, are the students supposed to NOT have any food intake on the day of the physical? Can’t they even have juice? How can our kids withstand it, being hungry for so long?”
“Hello, I want to know, do we need to pay the fees for the freshmen’s physical up front? Where can we make the payments? I’m a parent, you want me to get my son on the phone? He’s very busy, he’d not have the time, to deal with these miniscule matters! It’s time, it’s no big deal, I’ll, handle all of these smaller affairs for him………”
In our daily lives, we’d heard again, and again, these outrageous parents who don’t even know, that they’re, making mamas’ boys or daddies’ girls. The adults had, created, this, weird and unimaginable childrearing environment here.
We’d given a lot more knowledge to the children than from before. The kids now, they’re learning the phonetic spellings, even writing, something that we’d started to take up back in the first grades; and the kids now, they’d started on their English alphabets by first grade, and even some simple words too, that, was the lessons of our middle school years; the kids now, they took up calculus in high school, which was what we’d taken up back in our college days.
The intelligence had, surpassed us by the years, but, the psychological independences and maturity levels w24ere, way behind. The kids in elementary school now, are still behaving like kindergarteners, needing help from the adults in bathing and eating; the words and behaviors of some middle school students are so childish like elementary school children; a lot of the students in college, are at voting age, but, they’d still needed help from their parents on EVERYTHING, like they’re still, in middle school, and whenever there’s trouble, they’d, hollered out to their parents; and, we’d often heard professors complained, on how their grad students are like college students, writing up research proposals, doing the researches, every single steps, they’d needed their professors, to breathe down their necks for, they’d not become, independent thinkers, not have the courage and the ability, to discover, to venture out on their own.
When grades became the only requirement, expectation from the parents to the young, a lot of parents used the mindset of “So long as my kid works hard in school”, as for the rest of the matters involving their lives, are all considered secondary, so, the parents would take over.
And so, on interpersonal interactions, household chores, life skills, they’re all, removed by the parents, handled completely, by their parents, and, all of these were, erased from the children’s to-do lists. And so, the “birth” of a “mama’s boy” or a “daddy’s girl”; then, we’d hear those parents complained on how the kids are so old now, but they’d not known how to handle anything, not taking responsibilities for their own lives, that they’re, completely, reliant on the parents.
Weird, how are these spoiled children made? Could it be, that they just, become spoiled one day out of the blue???
Of course N-O-T, because spoiled BRATS are MADE, not born! And, it’s because of cases stated like the ones above, how the parents are still, hovering over their young, fearing, that they are having it too hard, because they don’t want their young to weather through the hardships that they had already, because they KNEW how difficult it was, for them to grow up back in the day, and that, is why, the parents are preventing the kids from experiencing the hardships of their lives, without realizing, that by blocking them from the experiences of hardships in life, they’re actually, preventing their own young from getting that needed psychological/mental growth SPURT!!!