APPROPRIATE ATTITUDE
Is there anyone out here who knows the answers
for the following questions?
Who could move you?
Who could help you grow to do more in life?
Who could inspire you to make a difference in your life?
Who could help you grow to do more in life?
Who could inspire you to make a difference in your life?
Congratulations to those who have the answers of
YOURESLF for all the above questions. For those who have not, today you will
find the answer.
What’s MATTERS most to your children as a
parent? What matters most to you in bringing up your kids? I believe it is
very much dependent on each individual. For me, it is their attitudes that
count most to me.
It struck my mind when I saw my son’s post at FB a couple of days ago. Without being told, my eldest son posted his post of himself with the Mandarin characters he created, bearing the meaning "I love (heart) my Chung Hwa Independence High School." This poster reminds me of the very first day, when I took him to visit the school without having his commitment to enroll in this school during the very last few days away from the closing date of its registration at Jalan Ipoh Road, Kuala Lumpur. It is situated quite a distance from my house.
Very fortunate of him to make a quick decision
to enroll with the school after he saw a parent who immediately issued a cheque
to the school after the school admitted his kid with exemption from taking
their internal assessment. This exemption was given to those who have achieved
excellent UPSR results at the primary school. However, I proceeded to take him
to tour the school instead before I paid the registration fee to ensure that he
wouldn’t regret his own decision.
As we toured around the school, I explained to
him that he should grab the opportunity given to equip himself with a strong
foundation in Mandarin, which I foresaw the importance of this language in view
of the rapid development that have transformed China after the second World
war. Due to the difficulties there to make a living, my grandfather took his
wife and two sons to the Southern Asia to find a better fortune. They, in fact,
took the risk of their lives to come to a country without any relatives here
and began to eke out a living in a foreign land. Since then, China has taken
tough measures to reform in building a strong nation by their first national
leaders, Dr. Sun Yet Sen (Father of the Nation), followed by Mao Tze Tung
(Father of Nation Building) and liberalized the Nation by Teng Zhoa Peng
(Father of Liberation). Today’s result was the fruit of their more than fifty
years’ efforts to rebuild and reshape their country to become an Economic
Power.
I remembered vividly that initially he declined
my offer and gave me thousand and one reasons not to enroll with the school. After
much persuasion, he changed his mind and was willing to explore this option
with open mind.
Thereafter the registration, I explained further
to him that I only can give him an opportunity whenever it arises. What most
important to me is that he takes the appropriate action he chose himself. In
life, opportunity will come and go. He is the one who has to decide whether he
want to walk the path he set for himself, no one else can walk for him. He
nodded his head in agreement and I believe he understood what I meant here.
We then went for celebration for having the
courage to make his own decision before I awarded him with a mobile phone for daring
to grab this opportunity that came along. At the same time I shared with him my
younger day where I was denied the opportunity to pursue my education after my
M.C.E. results despite numerous appeals to both the Education Minister and Penang’s
Chief Minister. I was very hurt at that time and refused to give up, tried many
other means such as go under, above and go around these obstacles. Finally, I
determined to make myself much stronger, tougher and better; not bitter.
To me, education is paramount important aspect
in life. Without education, you can't access knowledge to grow yourself better
and expand into other dimensions. Everyone has a liberty to education. No one
has a right to decline such a right from anyone, even the government so to
speak. This is the way to ensure that everyone
can make good use of his gift and talents to serve his community, country and
the world as a whole.
My wife then raised other practicable challenges
which we are going to face such as transportation to and from the school,
additional tuition fees to build strong foundation in these three languages
such as Mandarin, English and Bahasa Malaysia apart from preparation for local
and the Chinese Chamber of Examinations. We, at the same time, briefed him that
we can solve these challenges as when it arises, because every challenge has
its own solution.
Despite he had spent much of his efforts in taking
up two different examinations at the level of PMR and SPM respectively. He hardly complained about the syllabus
despite so much difference especially in History, Science and Mathematics
subjects.
Fortunately, he took his own initiative to study
and equip him well and better to face much greater challenges by building a
competitive edge in these subjects.
This have helped him a lot as he used much lesser time to adapt to new environment with more drastic change of weather and accommodation needs. I feel very happy for him despite his initial struggle to adapt himself there. From this post, I am glad that he appreciates what his school has done for him and he felt proud of being part of this renowned school.
Here, I share my experience with you to stress
the importance of moulding our children with the right attitude should you want
them to be a difference maker. I am equally glad to learn from some of you who might
have different views. That's ok so long as they are happy with it. Perhaps you
may share your experience via the comment column provided just below the post.
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excellence.
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