Expecting our children to be successful/ Carlos Pueblo
Once we
become parents, we are all expecting our children to be successful.
There is one
simple way to define success which means a kid becomes useful
to the
society. To reach this goal, we can take one principle, stable home
economics,
and three directions, healthy kid, good school education, and
a good philosophy
towards life.
Home economics
is a family’s finance, money, a family cannot live without it.
I was better
off than my parents when I had had my first child. I thought of her
very much
and was determined to give her my best. My first child is a regular
normal
healthy baby while two years later, I had a special need baby son. We had
been struggled
to keep him healthy for the first 6 years of his life. We do however
still
maintain a strategy for him to become useful in his life and closely
monitoring.
Baby food is
influential to the future eating favorite because the herbs ingredient.
I found out
that my daughter preferred American diet than regular home cooking.
This eating
habit made us wonder if she had taken enough food every day. We
Noticed and
made a correction to our son and he turned out alright with our regular
table food.
A good eating intake can help to determine a healthy child.
After the
child’s birth, I applied a social security number for her and as soon as she
received her
numbers, I made a deposit of $500 to open a Uniform Gift to Minor
Texas
account for her. I planned ahead of 18 years for her college education fees.
We
eventually didn’t use that fund for her college instead of my early withdraw of
my rover IRA
for both of my children’s college fees. One year after her graduation
from college
and intended to make a loan to law school, she transferred her UGMT
account to
her brother and later became his personal asset. It is always nice to plan
ahead which
is a good home economics.
We are a
Taiwanese language family, a bi-lingual family. I myself am a multi-lingual.
In order to
prepare our children to meet the pre-school requirement, we sent her
to a Baptist
nursery two years before regular kindergarten, while my son went to
a special
education school and directly entered a regular elementary school with
a help of
public law for special needs kids, a resource room.
We trust the
public school and followed the system until college. It is a free school
education
for almost 13 years. Both of our children followed the school’s curriculum
, step by
step to graduation, of course I should admit that problem did exist for both
of them. We
did our best to help them to resolve the problem. Her extra-curriculum
activities
included piano, cello, tennis, and basketball etc. were very interesting and
left
so much good
memory. These activities, especially tennis, helps her to build her leadership
ability in
the future with her carrier. On the other hand, my son’s school education was
a lot of
struggle for most of it. We took him for drawing lessons and tennis without
anything
stick. We are
not giving up because he may require more time.
After I read
a book of Buddhism from a Vietnamese monk, I suddenly realize that it is very
simple to
become successful. He says to live everyday meaningful and that is it. We can
be
very rich in
finance, or we can be very healthy, or we can be no stress in our life and so
on.
We must live
in a meaningful way of our life. We must help our children to establish their
philosophy
for life and keep it very simple, to live in a meaningful way without any
stress
or hardship.
