Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Speak out: Our back-to-school roles
By Henry L. Yu, MD
SUMMER vacation is over.
It's back to school season as shown by the "Back to School" sale promos, with people joining the long queue at the
cashier's area to pay for school supplies.
Among students, there’s the feeling of excitements to be with their classmates and teachers anew after they were refreshed and energized by the ephemeral summer break.
School days in our time were no different from today's dot.com generation.
We too were thrilled and excited on the first day of classes and in the succeeding weeks and months that followed until another school year was over.
Our kind of school life, though, was simpler as we didn't have hi-tech gadgets that our kids now have.
But we enjoyed, nonetheless.
We thank God for giving us the chance to live in both generations: the Yeah, Yeah Vonnel generation of the '60s and the Y2K dot.com generation.
Life, indeed, comes in stages.
We were yesterday's students and today's professionals and parents.
As parents, we may have been too strict towards our children, and that's because we only want the best for them.
After all, they will be professionals too, someday, and will be working, earning, and saving for their own future.
As parents, we are torn between love and discipline.
And that's not an easy thing to do.
In the meantime, let's go back to where we've left off.
It's back to school so let's return to our all-around roles as the great alalays of our kids: tutors, guides, errand persons, crying shoulders, disciplinarians, advisers, friends, etc.
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