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[smileyyvonne]

http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl111211_008.shtml

I actually disagree with this columnist.
"最后告诉自己：“不要通过孩子的成绩，来肯定自我的成就。适度的放手，孩子在需要妈妈的时候，才会紧握你的手。"

I remember scoring A* (91 marks and above) in primary school, and my mum will scold me for not scoring 100 marks. And when i finally

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[championmugger]

I agree. If any parent wants to pride themselves in being a successful parent, I believe they should look at their children's attitude and character, definitely not results. It is kind of sad, that Singaporeans have placed utmost importance in results as years go by. Whatever happened to dreams, motivation, passion

[smileyyvonne]

Yes I jumped ship to newyork times and the economist because I cant stand how ST copy and paste all sorts of random news together.

My senior helps out with one of the columns in 早报 and what she wrote wasn't accepted because "its too cheem". That reason is plain bullshit. She posted her article on renren (the chinese facebook) and there were tons of Chinese who agreed with her. It is just evident that local news are trying to "accomodate" Singaporeans standards by picking up random news that will gain viewership but have no value in them at all.

I do agree that our generation is going down hill, news reports of kids being proud that they punched their parents in their face though are cases in extremis but definitely, not something we will hear about in the past. Just so scary to think about our kids in the future. What if we expect something from them, and they say: MY FRIENDS ARENT DOING THAT? What can we do then?