big kids - let them fly

when your daughter asks you for permission to go holiday with her boy friend, what's your reply?

yes? no?

marathon man's fren ah jinjong was at a fix. he had to pushed her request aside, "no." he told his daughter.

but his daughter replied, "but you let cheh-cheh go out with his boy-fren for holiday?"

"i did not. they went out without my permission."

so you see, nowadays parents are hard, but the children are harder to be. if they are good, they are ask permission before they do, but they are turned down, but those do it before asking for permission get away with it, and get what they want.

how?

ah jinjong, cannot rationalize the events.

marathon man also don't know what to say to him. he can only say, "so the only way you can avoid making decision for your kids is to send them overseas. then they have to make decisions themselves, then they would inform you what they have decided, only when you asked after they have carried out their decisions. they cannot do that if they stay with you under one roof."