Monday 15 October 2018

Two Schools for Raising Kids

There are two school of thoughts concerning the nurture of my little girl, Panpwintlay. These can be labeled as "Action School" and "Monitor School".
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The Action School
The action school suggests that the more the parents and teachers push the student, the brighter the student will be. They know the talent of my girl, and how we (parents) let her spend most of her time under her own management. Giving such a smart girl a plenty of free time without supervising and without forcing to do paper work of the school lessons, they assume, do not help improvement of her class performance. Since there are much room left for the advancement of her schooling, then the parents should bother about it. Almost all her teachers, and some parents of her friends believe in this school of thought. They might want to blame us for not providing the girl as it should be, and they feel frustrated for our ignorance of extra tuition and other supplementary.
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The Monitor School
The second one is different from it. The monitor school suggests that a child should not be pushed all the time. They should enjoy their free time and they should be able to manage their stuff as much as they can. Raising up a child as it is is the best way for their all-round development. The monitor school encourages the parents and teachers to value the freedom of a child. A child should have enough time to sleep, to play, to think, to talk about anything they are interested in, and to manage themselves because everything a child is doing is learning and preparing for the whole life. Moreover, the freedom of a child could foster creativity and analytical skills which are the most important factors for today's global education system. This school discourages stealing time from the child and encourage the parents and teachers just to help the kids what they are interested in. "Just monitor and assist them in their own stuff" is the slogan of the second school.
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We believe in the second school of thought and it works well so far. We are satisfied with the talent and performance of the girl. Although we don't know exactly which school of thought provides better philosophy for nurturing my girl, we confidently choose the second one.
So far so good.


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