China's youngest PhD student stirs parenting debate

[kiddo]

pinky:

concern2:

This reminds me of an incident of a Chinese guy who was asked by his mom to return home from Japan cos she couldn't afford to pay his fees anymore and upon his arrival at the airport in China, stabbed her to death.

understand it must be an extremely exasperating decision for him but still... killing his own mother ??

The price of competition and upward mobility make people less humane
and very self centred to the hilt :gloomy:

Seems like the parent must provide everything for their child to excel
in this day and age ?? towards to the extreme at least it seem in China?

SG has a slightly different version of extreme ? :skeptical:

[jtoh]

Groomed to be self-entitled from young.

[LOLMum]

i am sure parents in spore do have similar requests from their kids or made such promises to their kids.

[pinky]

LOLMum:

i am sure parents in spore do have similar requests from their kids or made such promises to their kids.

probably the rich parents here dangle a car as a carrot for their kids to do well at A level (happened to one classmate of mine during JC) and a condo at U level :evil:

[kiddo]

pinky:

LOLMum:

i am sure parents in spore do have similar requests from their kids or made such promises to their kids.

probably the rich parents here dangle a car as a carrot for their kids to do well at A level (happened to one classmate of mine during JC) and a condo at U level :evil:

On the other hand can anyone see many of our children be able to
fair any better without help from us in these competitive and
high inflation day and age ........
seem like many KSP parents may not expect their children to
look after them but instead it the other way round to get them started

its a catch 22 ....

Having said that dangling any of the carrots for results
it's does not help in character building no matter how much
we love them , what kind of generations and generations we want
to create in the future is really in many parents hand :hi5:

[concern2]

pinky:

LOLMum:

i am sure parents in spore do have similar requests from their kids or made such promises to their kids.

probably the rich parents here dangle a car as a carrot for their kids to do well at A level (happened to one classmate of mine during JC) and a condo at U level :evil:

:yikes:

[phtthp]

so sad to hear this child saying such things to reporters like that.

his parents must be grieved inside, to hear the son say such thing …

[LOLMum]

i pity this child who lost his childhood and innocence. maybe the parents have good intention but use the wrong methods. both parties are losers.

[phtthp]

he lost his precious innocent childhood, without proper guidance in character moral values. Sad


he grow up not knowing what is the meaning of learn to honor your parents, respect your parents. :slapshead:

today, his definition of success means owning a big house, having lots of $.

[sall]

He could be harbouring resentment towards his parents. Seems like his parents pressurized him a lot. So maybe he expected rewards for his hard work.