From the Front Page Sections, translated…
It’s the summer now, a church close by to the house had a “Character Education Summer Camp”, and in just three days of the poster being posted, the slots were all filled up, it’s shown how much the parents are placing the emphasis on moral education nowadays.
Two days ago, I saw a group of middle school students gathering in a super convenience shop, and started speaking loudly, and every now and then, a cuss word here and there. Taking a closer look a few of the boys were chewing on the betel nuts with their lips dyed to red, very odd looking. This strange scene had me staring. What I wanted to ask is, who is responsible, for the moral education of all of these children?
I’d known a second-year middle school student from a single-parent family, his father works in China, and so, the hardships of raising him landed on his grandparents. And, although this was a cross-generation rearing case, he was taken well after; although he wasn’t at all outstanding in his school work, but, he’d behaved himself well. During his teenage years in the middle school, although his own father had been absent, he’d taken it as the norm. At the start of June, the teen’s father returned home from work, they’re finally, together, I can’t help, but feel happy for them.
And still, maybe it’s a mind of making it up to his son, the father seemed to have become glued onto him, took him out and about to hang. Late one night, he’d registered on FB with, “It’s already late, I’m still hanging around with dad out, it’s so tiring!”, he’d disclosed to me, that his dad’s friends all had tattoos like gangsters, smoked, drunk, and chewed betel nuts, along with kept a ton of other bad habits too, and swore all the time……There was an occasion, where he was about to take the finals in the morn, and his dad still took him out to the night markets, and what’s even wilder was, on the roads, his father made him experience the “thrills” of driving without a license. I’d thought, this was awful.
And I’d finally understood, that not all the accompaniments are good. That moral education still starts, in the family.
So, this father, in his compensatory mindset, he felt that he’d needed to make up for the times that he’d not been there for his own son, so, he’d taken his son out, tried to show him a good time, without realizing, that he was, the BAD influence, and this is what usually happens, when the father leaves the children to be raised by one’s own parents, but gladly, this young man didn’t turn bad, yet!!!
Life, the Obstacle Course 