some thoughts regarding inputs from parents.

Read some posts below and have some comments.

A person being independent does not mean he/she work alone. That is true for babies, elementary school students, high school students, college students and most adults. Proper guidence from parents is essential for a high school student to learn to do things, including deciding their future career direction, choosing colleges, choosing courses, etc. Having to let the child to follow the parents' suggestions is clearly wrong; it appears most parents from this forum know this. On the other hand, letting the students to do whatever they want to do w/o proper inputs (including choosing the right high school courses) is just as wrong as, if not worse than, forcing a student to follow the parents' decision. It is more likely for a chinese parent to "over-guide" the students, but we cannot go to the other end, making the mistake like many Aerican parents tend to make: under-guding the students. To help the students to be independent is not the excuse of "under-guidence".

my 2 cents.

所有跟帖： 

• 仁者见仁智者见智 -又当爹来又当妈- ♀ (277 bytes) () 11/16/2016 postreply 07:35:20

• 例如有数学物理辅导 tutors,靠学校? -BBL123- ♀ (42 bytes) () 11/16/2016 postreply 07:40:58

• 孩子上什么课让孩子自己选吧，毕竟是孩子上课，不是父母上课：） --百科-- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/16/2016 postreply 07:57:46

• 孩子对自己的学业对学校老师的了解肯定比家长多。家长基本啥都不知道，除了成绩，LOL --百科-- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/16/2016 postreply 07:59:28

• 说实话，高二以后家长会上有些科目我已经不明觉厉了。课堂上的东西肯定孩子自己知道的多， -R2D2- ♀ (56 bytes) () 11/16/2016 postreply 08:15:48

• i guess i am better than average parents :) -Smart- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/16/2016 postreply 08:53:30