Daughter:
When you were in first grade, you were selected into the school’s dance team and started dancing training.
School starts at eight o'clock, but you have to report to the club before seven-thirty. After school, you can't go home right away. You have to go to the practice room to learn basic skills. Split horses, handstands, forward valgus, cartwheels... Just learning handstands takes you a long time.
Several times, you told me, Mom, I don’t want to join the dance team. Seeing your crying face makes my heart twist.
But then I thought about it, what if I just obey you and you shrink back when you encounter problems in the future? I say to you, child, keep at it, your body is so soft, it would be a pity not to dance. With my encouragement, you gritted your teeth and persisted until the fourth grade.
There are twenty-four children in the dance team. Sometimes there is a limit on the number of people who can perform on stage. Because you are not confident enough, every time you select members to participate in the performance, you are a substitute and have no sense of presence. Sometimes I am bullied by other classmates. I think I'll just let you quit the dance team.
In the second semester of fourth grade, the school’s calligraphy club recruited new members, and you passed the assessment. Due to time conflicts, the two clubs can only choose one of the two. I respect your choice and let you quit the dance team. I feel your relief, your relief.
I was afraid that you would be tired, so I didn’t enroll you in any interest classes outside school until fifth grade.
Later, I chatted with the parents in your class and talked about interest classes. You won’t know if you don’t ask, but you’ll be shocked if you ask!
Most of the students in your class have signed up for interest classes outside of school, learning piano, guzheng, go, hosting... everything.
Your good friend from the school’s dance team has to learn several projects on the weekend, as if rushing to a performance.
Although your deskmate couldn't join the school's dance team, he took the Latin dance test level 7 outside the school.
My child is still standing still, while others have already spread their legs and run away. How will you compete with them in the future?
Mom began to feel anxious.
In September, your sister also became a freshman.
During the National Day, my sister’s class group was discussing enthusiastically what kind of interest classes to sign up for their children. I was stunned by the enthusiasm of the parents, and I was even more excited.
Anyway, you and your sister both like to draw. Why not enroll you in a drawing class? I tried to discuss it with you, but I didn't expect that you were all very happy. You jumped up even more happily, kissed me hard on the face, and said to me, Mom, you are the best!
My children, you are still too naive, hard times are ahead.
On October 4th, I enrolled you and your sister in a comics class at the same time. Each class cost 65 yuan, and each of you signed up for 20 classes. Classes start at 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays and last until 3:30pm.
When we didn’t register for classes in the past, the three of us, mother and daughter, had lunch, played with our phones for a while and then took a lunch break. We didn’t set an alarm clock and slept until we woke up naturally. Not to mention how comfortable it is.
After signing up for a hobby class, the good days are over. Have something to eat at noon and go to bed quickly. I slept for half an hour, spent half an hour on the road, and arrived at the training class at exactly two o'clock.
Children, desire is a bottomless pit, and as soon as Pandora's box is opened, everything is released. The same goes for registering for a class. After the first one, there will be a second one, and a third one...
Someone told me that the spring public welfare training class of the cultural center has started. The key is, Free! Each child can grab three places. There are also adult training classes, which are also free.
I enrolled you both in a comics class, which cost more than two thousand yuan. There are free training classes, so why not? So, I registered a username using the ID cards of our mother and daughter.
There are only thirty or forty people in each class of the public welfare training class, and the competition is fierce. In order to be foolproof, I selected the subjects in advance based on the course time and your age, and even practiced the quick Switch the username to log in to the website.
When I was about to start the robbery, I opened the web page and my mobile phone at the same time, holding my breath and concentrating, like a sniper who could pull the trigger at any time.
As soon as the time came, the quotas were opened one by one. My heart was beating fast. As I clicked, different prompts appeared on the buttons: success, success, quota is full... In just a few seconds, many projects are already full.
Poor parents in the world, there are quite a few parents like me.
Opportunity indeed favors those who are prepared - I actually passed many public welfare courses in seconds.
I enrolled you in calligraphy, painting, and dance, and enrolled your sister in Latin dance and origami. I even got myself a spot in adult calligraphy. Because it conflicts with the time to study comics in the training class, I had to reluctantly cancel your sister's origami class.
There are eight sessions in the course, all scheduled on weekends, but the time span is very large.
Saturday morning from 8 to 9 am is your dance time; from 2 to 3 pm in the afternoon is my calligraphy class time; from 4:30 to 5:30 is your calligraphy class time ...
On Sunday morning at 9:30, I will send you to the Cultural Center to learn comics; at 2:00 pm, I will send you to a training institution to learn comics; from 5:20 to 6:20, We are going back to the cultural center again, that is the time for your sister to dance Latin dance...
Free, nothing is free in the world, time is also an important cost.
For public welfare courses, you cannot ask for leave at will, otherwise you will be blacklisted.
These two months are undoubtedly the busiest for us.
On Friday night you must complete most of your homework. Unfinished homework should be brought to the cultural center and completed in the library while waiting for classes.
As soon as you arrived at the library, you picked up your extracurricular books and read them with gusto. Seeing that you are rarely relaxed, I don't criticize you too much. After all, reading is also learning.
Unexpectedly, when I checked my homework on Sunday night, I found that I had not memorized the book and the dictation had not been completed... I was in a hurry and was overwhelmed.
Because you have a good foundation in dance, you are particularly eye-catching among the mixed students in the charity training class, and you became the protagonist during the rehearsal program. You also attracted much attention from teachers in calligraphy and painting classes.
Even in the school's calligraphy club, the calligraphy level has improved by leaps and bounds, and was praised by the teacher. When I usually do my homework, my writing becomes more beautiful and tidy, as if I have been reborn.
On that day, the teacher from the training institution announced the list of exams and suggested that you take the comics level three exam. The training teacher said that the examination certificate can be used as extra points for students with special talents.
Thinking of your dream to be a fashion designer, I also hope that you can be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. Under the lobbying of the training teacher, just the day before yesterday, I paid you the fee for the exam, which is 440 yuan per ***.
When your father found out, he said that I was wasting money and was being deceived.
I searched on Baidu on the Internet and saw different opinions. Some said that social and cultural examinations are useless. Some people say that examination certificates can be used as extra points for students with special talents.
It suddenly occurred to me yesterday that my husband’s nephew graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts last year and is currently working as a training teacher at a training institution in Nanshan, Shenzhen. I thought about it and added his WeChat account to the family group.
I asked him directly if there was any use in taking the exam. He didn't care and told me that it was useless. You might as well pay attention to some news about art competitions inside and outside the province and let your children participate. Competition certificates are more practical.
Finally, he added that for every child who takes an exam, the teacher can earn one hundred yuan.
Damn it, those parents who give their children exams are all cut leeks! My heart was completely cold.
When I was browsing Weibo this morning, a hot search caught my attention: #Beijing will cancel the enrollment of students with special talents next year#?.
According to headlines, the proportion of students with special talents in each district of Beijing this year is within 4 of the district’s junior high school enrollment plan, and the enrollment of students with special talents will be canceled next year.
Ah ah ah, whatever you are afraid of comes, this time my mother really wants to die.
I checked the relevant news. As early as February 27 this year, the People's Daily published an article titled "Ministry of Education: Enrollment of all types of students with special talents will be canceled by 2020." . In response to the chaos in the recruitment process for students with special talents, the Ministry of Education requires that the enrollment scale of students with special talents be gradually reduced until the enrollment of all types of students with special talents is canceled by 2020.
I don’t know what kind of impact such news will have on parents.
Thinking of the busy past two months and what I have seen and heard during this period, I have mixed feelings in my heart.
There is a hall outside the cartoon room of the training class, with five or six sofas surrounding the wall for parents to rest.
I have seen many parents closing their eyes on the sofa to relax after their children entered the training class, and some even lay down directly on the sofa to sleep.
Among them, there are mothers with their infant children, as well as gray-haired grandmothers and grandfathers. Everyone's face showed a tired look.
An old woman told me that she had to take her grandson to three training classes every day during the two weekends. Her daughter-in-law did not trust her to ride a bicycle, so she always walked back and forth. The child can rest for a while at noon, and she also has to cook for the child.
I was attending a public welfare training class at the cultural center. In the corridor outside the door, there were also a wave of worried parents. They stood one by one, stretched their necks, and looked in through the small transparent window on the door.
Those are the eyes of parents who hope their children will succeed. They want to see their children's tomorrow and hope through this window.
Some parents left, and I finally found a chance to look into the classroom through the window. The children were dancing to the rhythm of Latin dance, but one child was standing with half-closed eyes, dazed. Feeling sleepy.
I think of you. Even on weekend nights, you don’t have any entertainment. You yawn while doing homework, and you slap your face stubbornly, trying to cheer up... .
I think of myself. It has been a long time since I wrote a novel. If I want to write calligraphy, I have to wait until you are asleep.
Our lives have been completely disrupted by these interest classes!
Daughter, after this training course, we will stop all the interest classes, okay? We go to the playground, to the park, to see mountains and water. I hope the world you paint is full of birdsong, flowers, laughter and laughter.
Mom wants to give you a happy and worry-free childhood!
?Love you mom
?December 20, 2018
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