What should we educate our kids?
星期一 六月 11, 2007 2:18 pm
This past weekend, Jason played in the playground. I watched him swing. He soon made a new friend: a girl named Lisa.
Since they were both in the talent show, so Lisa knew his name. Then they both joined another kids group to play tag game.
Half hour later, Jason approached me and asked me to follow him to find a few bad kids. I asked why. He said they did wrong to Lisa.
They used ugly words. I was a little concerned how to react since I didn't know those kids and worried if they would remember Jason and harm Jason later when I was not around. Because you never know who is in the dark side. But since Jason insisted, so we biked around and tried to find them.
Jason comforted Lisa not to worry; we would find them and give them a lesson.
Lisa was also with her big sister, she was 11 years old I guessed. She heard this and phoned her mom to ask her permission for her to handle the issue.
When we found these kids, Lisa's sister asked them what had happened and in a grim tone, she told them they were wrong to call others names, and use bad word.
I didn't say anything, I just watched, I was glad kids could judge and make things right by themselves. I hope each lesson they remember and help them on the right road.
I hope they won't take others' critique or help as hatred and revenge it later.
I told Jason be careful when such thing happened and remember to tell adults because they may get hurt. The world is not simple,
I remember when I was in element school, my neighbor's daughter was in the same class with me, and she made a lot of rumors about me thus few girls played with me.
But the good thing was I was a carefree and careless person, so I didn't suffer a lot. I played with boys a lot. Later when other girls reported to our teacher,
they were asked to say sorry to me. But I really didn't remember what they did to me. So when I grew up, I read a few books about psyche and wondered why I lacked my memory of my childhood,
then I seemed find the reason. The book said, your brain always choose what to remember, if something you want to forget, your brain may bypass these memories.
Yes. That is it. I choose to remember the fact that I saved the girl's life. It happened when I was 20 years old and she wanted to suicide. I found her and sent her to hospital. The doctor said if we were not there, five minutes later, she would be dead. But we never became friends, and I never asked her why she hated me since we were kids.
Sometimes you never know what others want and think. It maybe just two kinds of personality. So I wish Jason know how to protect others and himself too.
I don't want he experience the same as I. I want him enjoy every moment.
Though I never regret my childhood and still be happy.
(I guess I choose the right memory...^^)
