Comments on: A heart-breaking session..

By: Meet the Parents » Musings

Meet the Parents » Musings — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:28:19 +0000

[...] still. One of my colleagues at the faculty, has another perspective of meeting parents, and her entry is a heartfelt read. This entry was posted on Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 8:31 am and is filed [...]

By: farhan

farhan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:22:26 +0000

Well, pretty much whatever Kisa said, but I do feel it’s unfair for the kids to treat their parents with such temper. Unless they’re really intrusive and all that I guess.

By: cherry

cherry — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:17:53 +0000

Kis: Thanks for sharing. It is always nice to know about how teens think nowadays. I mean..I used to be a teen not long ago but it just seems so different being a teen now.

New: AHaha…did you encourage or discourage me from being a mom huh?

By: N3w_Typ3

N3w_Typ3 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:04:02 +0000

Well this is all I can say… Welcome to the future generation of Singapore youth!!!

since you have experience now, you agar agar know how different during our mother’s time and compare to us now… YEAH!

number one slackers!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:48:00 +0000

I didn’t know schools do these things after secondary school.

I think it is a very useful tool. However, at their age, that’s the problem I think.

By: KisaSohma_Alfonse

KisaSohma_Alfonse — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:17:30 +0000

Hello there Dr. Foo! This is one of the GET second year students speaking.

By: CY

CY — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:16:15 +0000

Peter got me to do a lecture on Gaming addiction for our GET side on Saturday – and boy, were there a lot of parents asking to further discuss their child’s addiction problems with me when I was done.:)

By: White & Red Roses

White & Red Roses — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:33:57 +0000

This is a great post! Young people, please heed up…

By: coketai

coketai — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:02:37 +0000

Cherry, I going to attend my daugther “Techcer meet parent’ next week, let see how it go…….!!! but I do share your view!!

LY.Tai

By: KisaSohma_Alfonse

KisaSohma_Alfonse — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:59:25 +0000

True that most if not all parents care for their kids, but their way of expressing it might lead their children to believe otherwise. It’s really up to their interpretation.

When children grow up, they want their own private space, and parents have to intrude that if they were to improve their relationship and communication with them. Here’s where the problem comes in. Teens don’t want to be monitored 24/7 about how they’re doing nor do they wish to report it fully to their parents, because it’s after all their private life.

After all, parents have (or they feel that way) more life experience than them, so if they heard anything that sounds suspicious to them, they’ll either probe further or entirely forbid them from doing certain things. So they learnt one thing – it’s best to keep a distance from them or just stay silent.

Just my two cents. It might be politically incorrect, so take it with a pinch of salt.