Walking into the new school of my son, paying for his new books, sport uniform and getting the school badge already put some nervousness into me. There were so many of them in the hall doing their graduation rehearsal, the school is huge with more than 3 classes of primary one. I starts to wonder worry about Calvin’s first year in primary school.
I wonder if he will be the naughty one in school that will get the most attention in a negative way or he’ll be a bright and cheerful kids which attracts positive attention from the school. I guess I have to put some positive chi into myself and hopefully this will affect Cal’s mentally and who knows, the power of the universe will be on his side and he’ll enjoy his primary school time.
Ya, don’t ask me where I got this positive “chi” thing or the power of the universe thing. In time like this, I wanted to believe that my son will do great in school. I wanted to assure myself that he’ll be okay. I probably is one nervous or freaky parent that think too much about her kid’s performance in school. I am praying that I won’t be putting much pressure on him till he dislike going to school. I’ve already found him a tuition group that he can join just so that he can do his homework in group and with a guidance of a teacher. I’m not the only one doing this. Where were those care-free time of childhood gone?
In my time, I’ve never heard of tuition in primary school. I don’t even know the meaning of tuition at that time. Now parents are putting their kids as young as 4 years old into tuition class. Probably now the definition of tuition is different from our time. It simply means “guidance time” to me, just so that they can do their homework before playing, before those Wii (play-station) time.
I’m hoping that I can spend quality time with my son rather than yelling over him to finish his homework which is definitely not as effective as a stranger telling him to do so.
