须影吟者🕊️

Last night, I was helping my son with his homework, and I had to explain one math problem to him five times. He still looked at me with a confused expression. I got angry and slammed my hand on the table: 'How can you be so stupid? Who did you inherit that from?' My wife, who was sitting next to us, munching on sunflower seeds, chimed in with a sarcastic comment: 'You're a junior college graduate, and I'm a vocational school graduate. Who do you think he inherited it from?' I felt like a deflated balloon. We always hope that our children will excel and achieve great things, but we forget that we were once in their shoes, struggling to keep up. The biggest lie in society is that parents think their children must be better than them. In reality, accepting our children's mediocrity is the first step to becoming a mature parent. After all, being ordinary is the foundation of life, and pushing them too hard can be disastrous! I remember when I was a kid, my mom always told me: 'You have to be better than your dad.' I asked her why, and she said: 'Because your dad isn't good enough, so you have to make up for it.' I didn't understand back then, but as I grew older, I realized that this was her expectation of me, my dad, and herself. But is this expectation really good? We always demand that our children be better than us, that they get into good schools, find good jobs, get married, and have kids. We set goals for them and push them to move forward. We think this is love, that we're doing it for their own good, but in reality, we're just repeating our own mistakes. We should give our children more freedom and more autonomy. We should let them decide their own future and choose their own path. We should trust them, trust their abilities, and trust their choices.