A birthday child brings in all the buckets of candies to share with the class, but, your child can’t have any, and it’s, totally, too hard on her/him, translated…
From when my eldest daughter entered into the first grade, I kept on, feeling troubled by one thing—the temptations of snacks that came every now and then to her. At first, it was the treats that her classmates brought to the class on their birthdays to share, the teacher put the birthday hat onto the birthday child, have the child sit in front of the classroom, as everybody else sang “Happy Birthday”. The photos that were shared in the Group of the teachers and parents, are like the firecrackers, going off on New Year’s, made everybody take notice, the parents started wishing the child a happy birthday, thanked the mothers for loving someone else’s child like her own, grateful for the teacher for setting the celebratory mood in the classrooms, and stated how lucky the child is, to be in such a wonderful classroom.
mom’s troubled about how much candies and treats the children are getting in school when someone has a birthday!
Like gaining a certain sort of an encouragement, or, for that sense of honor of “I’m not getting beaten by you!”, for the days that followed, the classroom started in this competitions, with the birthday child’s parents preparing the assortments of goodies, treats, from the store-bought cakes, to the homemade cookies with the frostings of the birthday boy or girl’s name………there’s not a best, only, better, and, it’d not just happened on the birthdays of students, btu also, on holidays like Halloween, and Christmas too, from the celebration of the school’s birthday, to the fieldtrips. I’m in awe, at the other parents’ hidden skills, and grateful for them, for putting in the money, the time, and the energies, but on the other hand, I’d worried, that my own child’s appetite for supper would be, affected, because of the multitude of treats he was receiving in school, and the sweets aren’t, good for the teeth either, and not healthy on the body. We knew, that the snacks are, innutritious, but we’d, always, shared them to spread the joys, so, how do our children learn, the right kinds of, values? When others are, happy snacking on the treats, my child can only, watch from the sidelines, and this sort of a special treatment, even if it wasn’t, labeling, could it be, a bit, cruel too?
Rather than expecting a six-year-old child to fight off the temptations, I’d hoped, that I can have the supports of the other parents, as well as the teacher in my child’s class, from the source, help them fight off the temptations, to help safeguard their health. To help our children, to establish a healthier way to eat, so this love of sharing, doesn’t turn into, too sweet, a burden.
And so, for whatever reasons (i.e. health or whatever), you’d told your child’s school teacher, that s/he can’t have the sweets, and so, this made is hard for your child in class, as the birthdays come, and it’s a custom, that the Taiwanese students bring that huge keg of candies to the classrooms on their birthday to share with the class, but, the parent who wrote this has a point, that there should be, better ways, to share the joys of a child’s birthday with everyone in her/his class, other than, serving up the sweet treats to the entire class.