Take it EASY, Parents!

In a competitive society or community, many people like to pitch their level of success against that of their neighbours or peers, for fear of lagging behind or losing out to them. Unknowingly, their external behaviours give away their inner attitudes.

Have you come across some parents who like to ask and find out the marks their children's classmates score in the tests and examinations? Frankly, such parents are always a pain in the neck for many other parents. If other classmates score lower marks than her child, she feels great; but when others score better marks, she feels jealous, and she would work harder on her child and make sure her child gets ahead the next time. Everntually, who suffers? It is the child.

Some parents would feel bad, guilty and left behind if all the neighbours along the same corridor are getting a tutor for their children. So, when they could not resist such comparative and competitive thinking, they would also engage a tutor for their own children. Do you know that many children take tuition not because they need to but because the parents want them to, so as not to lose out in this competitive society?