Chapter 59: Coke Wings and Parent-Teacher Conferences
The teacher who was introduced by Sister Wang to teach Yangyang to paint was transferred, so I had to find another art teacher for Yangyang. But when I told Yang Yang that I was going to take him to another place to learn how to paint, he suddenly said that he didn't want to learn to paint anymore and wanted to learn Go! I didn't think much about it and immediately rejected his request, because he had been learning to paint for two years, and it was a pity to throw him away.www.biquge.info If he really likes Go, he should support it, but he still doesn't know anything about Go now, and it was when he went back to his grandmother's house a few days ago and saw that his little cousin Yueyue's Go was fun, so he suddenly decided to throw away the painting. I couldn't convince him after telling him a lot of reasons, so I had to ask him to learn Go and art together, but he refused to agree, saying that he could only choose one of his second lessons, and he would no longer learn art when he learned Go.
Because of this incident, I had a stalemate with Yang Yang for a few days, he didn't go to art classes, I didn't give him Go lessons, and during this period, I didn't agree to other requests other than studying and eating, which was counted as a punishment for his disobedience. He's already in elementary school, and I don't want to be forced by his temperament, I want to be him. I also feel like I'm going to spoil this kid. But Yangyang was very stubborn, not only did he not give in, but also used the method of pretending to have a stomachache and not going to school to deal with me. In this regard, I still used the last method to scare him into taking him to the hospital for injections, but this time he seems to be determined to fight to the end, and he really wants to go to the hospital with me for injections. Good guy, in order to learn Go, I'm not even afraid of injections.
Of course, I didn't take Yangyang, who didn't pull, vomit or burn, to the hospital, but changed a trick to run away from home, and I went back to live in the countryside with the excuse that his grandmother was sick. I intend to use his attachment to me to get him to submit. After I left, Yangyang, who was a little afraid of his father Lu Tao, obediently returned to school, but he was depressed all day, ate less, and couldn't finish his homework for two consecutive days.
"Can't you hold on for another two days?" I complained to Lu Tao after I came back.
"He doesn't like to eat the food I cook, and I don't understand the homework he can't do, what do you say I should do?" Lu Tao said helplessly.
I had no choice but to take the initiative to break the deadlock and sit down to have a good talk with Yang Yang again, but the result was that he still insisted on not attending art class. In the end, I lost and enrolled him in a Go class, otherwise it would not be a good thing for him to go to school with emotions.
Since taking the Go class, Yangyang has gone back to his grandmother's house a lot in order to play Go with Yueyue. And I had to go with him every once in a while. When I was at his grandmother's house, Yang Yang and Yueyue often played on one side, and I was alone on the other side to receive my mother-in-law's chattering teachings. In the eyes of my mother-in-law, I will always be a person who will not behave in the world, she will take the trouble to train me from cooking, making friends, taking care of children and other aspects, but for many years, she has had little effect on my training, and in front of her, I am even more difficult to educate than Yangyang.
Whenever this happens, my sister-in-law walks among us like an inspector, interjecting from time to time, like her mother's assistant.
"You can't leave it to your child, sometimes you have to give him some color. My mother-in-law said to me while sewing the quilt she had just unwashed. Her eyes are so good that no one in her seventies needs to wear reading glasses.
"Didn't I leave for two days? It didn't work, but he carried it with us. I said to my mother-in-law.
"What can you do if you leave? It's not that he can't live without you? Sometimes you have to fight when you should be beaten, you see I gave birth to a child, which one dares not to listen to me?!" The mother-in-law deliberately lowered her voice when she said this, and also glanced at Yang Yang with her eyes to see if Yang Yang heard it.
"No, I'm not advocating hitting a child. "I still stick to my principles.
"If you don't fight, you can't make a talent!"
When my mother-in-law said this, I deliberately changed the subject, watching a cooking show on TV that taught how to make Coke chicken wings and said, "It's delicious to watch." ”
"It's delicious, you have to be able to make it, can't you eat it if you can't make it?"
"What's so difficult about this, I'll make a Coke chicken wing for Yangyang when I go back today. I said nonchalantly.
"What's so difficult? Then when you make Coke chicken wings, let me taste them, I haven't eaten them yet." The mother-in-law smiled disdainfully.
"Okay, I've got it ready for you. Unconvinced, I agreed.
This is good, take Yangyang to play Go, and play a Coke chicken wing. I didn't do it when I went back that night, I didn't do it until Saturday, and I spent the whole morning. When my black cola chicken wings came out of the pot, I regretted agreeing to give them to my mother-in-law, wasn't this a clear scolding? But what happened next? Yang Yang only ate half a cola chicken wing and stopped eating it, saying that it was not delicious. I couldn't help it, I held a plate of Coke chicken wings in my arms by myself, and was going to kill them all before Lu Tao came back, so that Lu Tao would not have to comment after seeing or tasting it when he came back. But there were so many that I didn't want to eat two chicken wings, so I just went and fed the dog downstairs, I thought. I picked up a plate of chicken wings and was about to go out, Lu Tao came back, he came in and saw the black chicken wings on the plate, a burst of surprise, and said, "You made chicken wings?
"This is made for Yangyang, don't eat it!" I chased after him and tried to snatch the chicken wings back.
"I can't eat one for Yangyang?" Lu Tao stuffed a chicken wing into his mouth as he spoke, and as I expected, his facial expression froze and he stared at me for a long time without speaking, and when he took the chicken wings out of his mouth, he asked puzzledly: "Is this chicken wing you made a cola chicken wing or some other chicken wing?"
"It's the taste of Africa, Africans love to eat this taste, I made it according to what I was taught on TV, it seems that we are not used to this African taste. I argued.
"African chicken wings? You still have Martian chicken wings! You people who read a lot can create new terms, don't you just make Coke chicken wings mush? It's a pity that these chicken wings cost twenty dollars, right?"
"Go, you have the ability to make your own Coke chicken wings for us to taste, standing and talking without backache!" I was upset, took my chicken wings back from him, and ignored him.
In the next few days, I didn't take Yangyang to his grandmother's house, Lu Tao took it, I was afraid that my mother-in-law and I would ask me for Coke chicken wings to eat. Although I didn't go, I can also imagine how my mother-in-law's family laughed at my Coke chicken wings under Lu Tao's eloquent narration. Lu Tao is not like most Chinese men, who always protect his wife, but likes to please his mother by exposing my weaknesses, as long as he sees his mother laughing happily, he feels very happy, as for my feelings, he rarely thinks about it, and even he prefers to see me angry, as if the two of us are really a pair of enemies.
After playing Go for a while, Yangyang's mood improved, and he became lively again, as if he had completely forgotten about being a cadre who couldn't go to work.
Before the winter vacation, I finally waited for the first parent-teacher meeting since Yangyang went to elementary school, and I asked for leave from the unit that day, and I was eager to get a more complete understanding of Yangyang from the teacher's mouth.
Parent-teacher conferences are held after school, and each parent sits in their child's seat. I consciously sat in the last row, because Yang Yang, the tallest person in the class, sat in the last row all the time.
"Didn't you ask the teacher to move the child forward to a seat? It's easy to get distracted when you sit in the back and listen to the lecture, and if you don't have good eyes, you can't even see the blackboard clearly. "Wu Xuewen's mother, who lives in the same community, said to me when she saw me.
"My son is too tall to sit in the front row. I said.
"Why not, the one sitting in the front row is not necessarily a small person, do you see that my family Xuewen is short? Isn't my family Xuewen sitting in the third row? Why don't you let Xuewen and his father help you talk to the teacher?" Xuewen's mother was quite enthusiastic, but I politely declined her kindness. I think that if I want to change the seat for my child, I should tell the teacher directly, it is not good to say through others, and it doesn't matter if you sit in the back row, as long as Yangyang studies well.
At the parent-teacher meeting, the teachers of each subject made a speech, the mathematics teacher said that Yangyang's class mathematics score is the worst in the whole grade, said that she has done her duty, I don't know why she still can't raise the results of this class, and also said that some parents should grasp the children tightly after the children come home from school, etc., in short, her implication is that her teaching is no problem, the problem is in the children and parents, either the children are too stupid, and they can't teach, or the parents are not strict with their children. The speeches of the teachers of other subjects were similar, only the mood of the ideological and moral teacher was good, saying that the results of the ideological and moral class in this class were the best in the whole grade, and she left the classroom to speak in another classroom where she was substitute after praising the children and parents. But I know that some time ago, a few boys in Yangyang's class sent boys from another class to the hospital, even though they were only six or seven years old. However, when I say this, there will be parents and teachers who will say that I am digging into the horns, because everyone has become accustomed to not thinking about teaching and reality together, as if the subject of student fighting and ideology and morality has nothing to do at all. Classes are just for the sake of getting points, and getting points is just for the university entrance examination, and almost all parents nowadays think like this, and as for the quality and morality of children, few people mention it, unless they listen to those who are dissatisfied with society complaining on the streets and alleys, they can hear words like "what have become of today's children".
Finally, the Chinese teacher and homeroom teacher Ms. Bai appeared on the stage, she had a grievance on her face as soon as she came on stage, she first reported the bad news that the class was at the bottom of the grade, and then pointed directly at the parents: "If you parents don't hurry, what can we teachers do?" And the parents also showed their unforgivable sins very cooperatively, bowing their heads and making confessions one by one, as if it was all the parents' fault that the children's academic performance did not improve. After the anger in Mr. Bai's heart was over, he read two lists, one was a list of students who had made great progress, and the other was a list of students who had regressed a lot, and unfortunately, I heard Yangyang's name in the latter list. And Teacher Bai asked specifically on the podium: "Are Lu Chenyang's parents here?" "Here we are!" I replied loudly with a raised hand. "Lu Chenyang is the student who has regressed the most in this final exam, and he has regressed by twenty people at once, whether your child wants to study in the future, you parents should go back and think about it!" I sat down and didn't answer again, whether my child wants to study or not, I think about this problem every day, and I don't need the teacher to remind me! Before the meeting, Teacher Bai asked each parent to pay 20 yuan for the class fee, saying that he would make a layout at the back of the classroom. After a while, all the parents paid, and the parents who didn't bring money borrowed from others also paid. I know that it is not legal for teachers to collect class fees from parents, but again, no parents have mentioned it, and I have not mentioned it, because in this relationship, it is wise to obey the teacher.
After returning home from the parent-teacher conference, I didn't mention to Yang Yang about his regression, because I knew the reason. (To be continued.) )