It's Just School! Let Your Kids Go!

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Okay.  It is almost the end of January and the new school new has actually gone through about three weeks of school.  You would think that children have already gotten used to going to school in the morning and involving themselves with the many school activities.  You would also think that they are happy to get away from their home environment and to meet their friends in school!

They have!  The only people who have not got used to the idea of them going to school is their parents; especially parents whose children are attending pre-school or year one!

Like I said, it is already the end of January but I still see parents parking their cars and walking their children right to their classroom doors!  Even pre-school and year one pupils who have siblings in years three and above are being sent by their parents to their classrooms!  Couldn't these parents have asked the elder siblings to take charge of their little brothers or sisters?  I mean, come on!  Give your kids some kind trust!

I have also noticed that in the morning when these parents walk their children to the classrooms, they simply park their cards haphazardly in the already congested parking space in front of the teachers' common room!  Worse still, there are also parents who send their children to school as late as 7.45 in the morning!  I mean, that is not the example you would want to set to your children; not where being punctual and having discipline according to time is concerned.

In fact, there is even this mother who has been sending her child straight to the classroom door every day ever since her child was in standard one.  This is the second year she's continuing to do it!  And when she does that, she will be gone for more than half an hour, with her car blocking the path of almost every other car that enters the area!

Parents!  Give your kids some slack!  I mean you send them to school, not only so that they can learn about the subjects in the classrooms.  You also send them to there so that they will learn to be responsible and independent.  And, they will never ever find that responsibility to be independent if their parents keep clinging to their necks!