Parent\'s high expectation和孩子的壓力
(2009-10-29 07:04:46)
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昨晚到家,兒子已經隨老媽去練跆拳道了。老爸一個人在家準備晚飯。晚飯剛準備完,就聽見兒子開門,隨即是興奮的叫聲:“Dad, do you want to see my science test? You will have to sign."
"Of course, let me take a look."
兒子從書包裏拿出考試圈子--A+和老師的評語”Awesome"。關於太陽係的science考試,25題全對。兒子的得意溢於言表。老爸表揚了一句:”Good job! keep working hard. You see, you are doing much better than at the beginning of this semester."
吃完飯,老爸洗完碗,和兒子坐下來,檢查兒子一天的作業,幫助兒子完成homework,這是每天必需的程序,還要簽字。等看到兒子帶回來的有關太陽係的classwork folder的時候,老爸看到老師的叉叉,還沒來得及問兒子呢,兒子一把搶過去,說:“Let me look first, dad." 自己跑到沙發上,離老爸老媽遠遠的。看完了,就想放回書包。
老爸說:”Son, it is ok to make mistakes. Everybody make mistakes. As a matter of fact, every time you make a mistake, you learn from it. So it is not bad at all if you learn from your mistakes."
兒子不自然的還給老爸。老爸看了一下:一張是老爸上次和兒子一起作的時候,老爸也不知道答案,讓兒子去問老師的。兒子說問過了,但不記得老師怎麽說的,就隨便填;另一張是太陽地球形成的陰影的圖像,兒子把兩個名詞搞反了。但後麵這個,老爸一想,真要明白這個,還需要空間想象力和光學的基本原理呢,要他懂,還不容易呢。就提醒兒子第一個問題他該再問老師,第二個是他把名詞搞反了,看看定義就行。兒子答應知道了,就沒再說下去。
上床了。老媽說,兒子怎麽會這樣呢?好的馬上拿出來給父母看;不好的就想藏起來,不讓父母知道,以前好像不這樣的。老爸說:人家其實很在乎爸爸媽媽。爸爸媽媽對他期望高,但又love他,他可不想讓爸爸媽媽失望。以前沒有考試,每次期中期末帶回來的都是A+,你哪有機會看他這種表現。
想起了兒子這個學期剛開始的時候,太多的frustration,俺和鋼琴老師交流,鋼琴老師的email裏的話:I know all you Chinese parents have high expectation to your kids. It is not a bad thing at all. Myself have high expectation to my kids, too. However, this is a big pressure to your kids because they do not want to fail you. Don;t always go negative if your kid fail occasionally. They are trying their best to please you.
俺還在學。要改變作父母的思維方式,也不是一件容易的事。但換位思考一下,知道孩子在努力“討好”父母的話,也許父母能克製得多一些。
(10/29/2009)