new challenge.
it wasn't particularly difficult, but challenging.
i'm talking about my new tuition kid.
a 9-year old who pretty much wasn't like what i used to be at all.
i remember when i was 9, i was having tuition with a friend of mine from the same class. the teacher was from a pretty distinguished school in TPY.
smoker aside (no comments). really an asshole.
to what extent? his demands were impossibly high.
homework-wise, i dare not forget to do. he had this tendency to pull my friend's long hair if he didn't do his work or failed to get his stuff right.
he tore my assessment book before and threw it out of the door.
he woke up my friend's brother, who was sick and thus sleeping, and punished him for forgetting to do his work. the punishment was what, i forgot, perhaps it was so horrible it wasn't worth remembering.
and 1.5 years under him.
i did not understand why my friend's mom continued to employ him, despite such violence. me neither.
but under him, my grades skyrocketed. band 1s were pretty common.
but i performed out of fear, not as i wanted to.
today is different.
today, i adopt a liberal, friend-like approach to tutoring my kids. it was horrendous to subject them what i personally went through (and it doesn't just stop at the tutors alone).
not that i had tutors who were all bad. there were some good ones.
though their teaching approach can be more refined and geared towards encouraging self-motivation.
this new kid is a challenge - active, and having rather a tad more of memory lapses. but this one, i'm keeping. for 3 reasons.
1st - it's v near my house.
2nd - it's not v hard (p3 only).
3rd - the most important reason. it exposes me how i should coach my own kid next time.
primary school is the time where kids are not especially geared into focusing on their very own. this one, i expect, shall require more patience and a little bit of coaxing to get things done. i cannot get him to think on his own yet, 9 years old is too young an age.
ppl, if you have the opportunity, give tuition.
good money, flexible. most important, however, you take home the most important bit.
how to coach your own kids next time, be it for school or for life.
that's something to think about, isn't it?
i'm talking about my new tuition kid.
a 9-year old who pretty much wasn't like what i used to be at all.
i remember when i was 9, i was having tuition with a friend of mine from the same class. the teacher was from a pretty distinguished school in TPY.
smoker aside (no comments). really an asshole.
to what extent? his demands were impossibly high.
homework-wise, i dare not forget to do. he had this tendency to pull my friend's long hair if he didn't do his work or failed to get his stuff right.
he tore my assessment book before and threw it out of the door.
he woke up my friend's brother, who was sick and thus sleeping, and punished him for forgetting to do his work. the punishment was what, i forgot, perhaps it was so horrible it wasn't worth remembering.
and 1.5 years under him.
i did not understand why my friend's mom continued to employ him, despite such violence. me neither.
but under him, my grades skyrocketed. band 1s were pretty common.
but i performed out of fear, not as i wanted to.
today is different.
today, i adopt a liberal, friend-like approach to tutoring my kids. it was horrendous to subject them what i personally went through (and it doesn't just stop at the tutors alone).
not that i had tutors who were all bad. there were some good ones.
though their teaching approach can be more refined and geared towards encouraging self-motivation.
this new kid is a challenge - active, and having rather a tad more of memory lapses. but this one, i'm keeping. for 3 reasons.
1st - it's v near my house.
2nd - it's not v hard (p3 only).
3rd - the most important reason. it exposes me how i should coach my own kid next time.
primary school is the time where kids are not especially geared into focusing on their very own. this one, i expect, shall require more patience and a little bit of coaxing to get things done. i cannot get him to think on his own yet, 9 years old is too young an age.
ppl, if you have the opportunity, give tuition.
good money, flexible. most important, however, you take home the most important bit.
how to coach your own kids next time, be it for school or for life.
that's something to think about, isn't it?
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