pagoni2020
2021-04-02 10:18:22
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OT: I remember an extra-called parent meeting many years ago because a group of about 10 students kept massively disrupting the class. After the class teacher’s presentation, I asked him, being aware that my little one might be among them, WHO the students he mentioned were, so that we as parents would also know and could do something together. After all, no one at home can be held collectively responsible without knowing if they are actually part of the gang. However, he didn't want to say this in front of the parents, nor even in a direct conversation. But he kept threatening to take the toughest measures against this group.
It was supposed to be about 10 students out of 28.
Suddenly, one parent after another spoke up, reporting the innocence of their own little one and how disturbed they felt by this gang and thus prevented from achieving further top performances. These parents reported uniformly how disturbed their child felt by the group... it was heart-wrenching :D
After the 27th parent had expressed the same positive opinion about their own child, I stood up once again, pointed out my weakness in math but concluded that apparently a part of us parents must have a "dreamy" perception if now 27 out of 28 claim their children can only be angels; that much math had stuck with me. So some parents are mistaken in this regard or the teacher up there is lying when he named 10 students. This is exactly what I notice more and more these days: with children there are only model Einsteins or winners. There aren't seconds or thirds anymore, just as parents only talk about university, an apprenticeship no longer crosses most of their minds. The problem is PRIMARILY us, the parents, but how easy it is to shift one’s own deficits to the school, the university, the training company, employer, neighbor, or spouse instead of taking one’s own broom in hand. In my opinion, this puts an immense pressure on the children to live up to the often surreal ideal image their parents have of them.
But where are all these Einsteins? I don’t see them in this breadth.
For me back then it would have been rather "normal" if my little one had been part of it; I find it downright ridiculous and often embarrassing how parents cling so desperately to the idea that their offspring is particularly enlightened; it was enough for me if mine developed somewhat "normally" and only allowed themselves such blunders that they can somehow fix on their own in life.
This story is still a running gag with my kids 20 years later; when my son heard the names of the parents whose children are supposed to be enlightened or, of course, the best/most intelligent, he held his belly from laughing.
It was supposed to be about 10 students out of 28.
Suddenly, one parent after another spoke up, reporting the innocence of their own little one and how disturbed they felt by this gang and thus prevented from achieving further top performances. These parents reported uniformly how disturbed their child felt by the group... it was heart-wrenching :D
After the 27th parent had expressed the same positive opinion about their own child, I stood up once again, pointed out my weakness in math but concluded that apparently a part of us parents must have a "dreamy" perception if now 27 out of 28 claim their children can only be angels; that much math had stuck with me. So some parents are mistaken in this regard or the teacher up there is lying when he named 10 students. This is exactly what I notice more and more these days: with children there are only model Einsteins or winners. There aren't seconds or thirds anymore, just as parents only talk about university, an apprenticeship no longer crosses most of their minds. The problem is PRIMARILY us, the parents, but how easy it is to shift one’s own deficits to the school, the university, the training company, employer, neighbor, or spouse instead of taking one’s own broom in hand. In my opinion, this puts an immense pressure on the children to live up to the often surreal ideal image their parents have of them.
But where are all these Einsteins? I don’t see them in this breadth.
For me back then it would have been rather "normal" if my little one had been part of it; I find it downright ridiculous and often embarrassing how parents cling so desperately to the idea that their offspring is particularly enlightened; it was enough for me if mine developed somewhat "normally" and only allowed themselves such blunders that they can somehow fix on their own in life.
This story is still a running gag with my kids 20 years later; when my son heard the names of the parents whose children are supposed to be enlightened or, of course, the best/most intelligent, he held his belly from laughing.