pArEnt VS child
chiang, boy genius(a professor at the age of 21), passed away few days ago due 2 sickness. Sickness? they din mention exactly wat sickness that had caused him 2 death. juz knew that he had depression not long after obtaining phD in California, then came back 2 m’sia n was admitted into hospital.
pityful. only lived for 31 years. however, the length of life does not matter. wat matters more is the quality of one’s life.
chiang had contributed his entire life in researching physics particularly….n the parent muz have also played an important role throughout the process.
parent have crucial role in the mental,physical,emotional n spiritual development of a child. simply feeding the child with wat the parent think is correct will have 2 outcomes.either the child will become successful n thank his/her parents during one of his/her speech,interviews.. or chiang’s case….
understanding is wat most of the children need 2day.i juz dislike seeing parents not educating their kids properly(mostly seen in low income family..)or worse still manipulating them. if the parent were to spend some time to discuss the matter with a child, running away from homes with boyfriend, commiting suicide because of unsatisfying results,playing truant, gangsterism…will not cover pages n pages of the newspaper.
nowadays,there are many talks n seminars being held 4 children taking UPSR,PMR,SPM,STPM…but wat about parent??? they seriously need some lectures…
January 30th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Kinda sad huh, to leave life at such a young age. The greatest tragedy.
Yeah, what matters most is how u live life. Chiang must have had realised his passion at 13 when he decided to take up physics. Most of us would just bounce about wherever the winds may take us to. I think its great to hold fast to ur passion, and let it lead u thru life. Then life becomes more meaningful than just struggling to get up at 6am everyday.
And when u leave this world, u can proudly carve on ur gravestone: “Here lies Chiang Ti Ming, died fighting for the advancement of Physics”.
And not: “Here lies Johan Siow, died fighting to get up at 6am in the morning”.
Yup, ur right, alot of parents tend to push their children into the realm of “prefectionism” ie. must get 10 A+, must be top student, must be smarter than Ali next door etc. This has created a whole new generation of super-kiasu ppl…
Problem is, most parents weren’t trained in parenting, they pick it up “informally” from their parents, who in turn picked it up from their parents, who probably didnt know anything about parenting.
Kesian ur parents le, most of the time it’s “trial and error” for em…
February 14th, 2007 at 12:44 am
my parents r juz great..
March 6th, 2007 at 5:14 am
whoopz, i din mean to mean ur parentz, rephrase to “Kesian some of the parents out there…”, soree…
June 4th, 2007 at 2:43 am
hoi! update ur blog la mingsun~ >.