今天很喘！
When I start giving tuition 7 years ago, I always remind myself that 世界上没有笨小孩，只有不用心的小孩。Up till now, this belief still holds strongly in my mind.
I had a new Primary Four boy 1 month ago, introduced by another student. Teaching him is a very depressing task. Every lesson, I look at him helplessly. Because,
I really don't know how to help him. Throughout the month, I tried different methods of teaching and different ways to deal with him. But I can't seem to find the correct way of doing things.
温柔地跟他讲解，他无动于衷。
喊他、骂他、对他凶，他也没感觉。唯有我失声了一个星期。
不管用什么办法，结果还是没有结果。
2 hours is too tiring for him.
1.5 hours, nothing much can be done. His corrections cannot even finish within that 1.5 hours. And he still needs me to re-do his whole school homework with him, which lasted more than 1.5 hours.
Throughout the years, when students come to me telling me that they don't like Maths or the fail their Maths, I can sort of figure out their problems and have the confidence that they will love Maths very soon.
But this time round, I have no confidence at all.
And the most disheartening thing is, there is no support from his family members at all. His parents spend their time managing their own business, leaving the house early and coming home late at night (around 10pm). So the kid spends his time watching TV right after he reaches home from school. Nobody guides him in his homework and he just anyhow does it.
I thought I can get some help from the family so I talked to the mother, telling her honestly that I have no confidence of him passing his exams. And indirectly telling her that she should coach him more, if not he won't be able to pass his primary school at all.
AND, GUESS WHAT THE MUMMY TELLS ME!!
“哎哟读不了书，最多去当咖啡仔咯。我可以养他！”
如果家长那么不负责任，那把孩子带来这世界有什么意义？
I seriously don't know how to teach him. His standard is really depressing.
AND, HE COMES LATE FOR MY TUITION. Because the mother left the house late, then there was a jam in PIE (they live in Bukit Timah). Last week, they were late for 35 minutes. Today, they were late for 20mins when I have already warned the parent one day before not to be late as I have another tuition to rush to after him.
Ok, this explains my very very hectic day.
This boy's tuition is 10am today at my house but he came at 10.20am. So I have to release him later, and his granny came late to fetch him, so in the end I was left with 10 mins to pack and eat lunch and rush off to Khatib for my another tuition.
Gosh, I can amazingly finish my duck rice in 7 mins. I don't think i chewed -_-
Then panting, I reached my another student's house in Khatib at 12.55pm and I die die have to end by 3pm as I have a keyboard lesson at 4pm in Bugis. So I walked and ran at the same time so that I can reach MRT station by 3.15pm to catch the train to Bugis and walked very fast to music school by 4pm.
Then played the piece hastily. Not very happy with my performance today :(
Went to meet Andrew for dinner after that. Thank goodness I don't have another tuition at 7pm, if not I will just die.
Aunty says it's good to squeeze all tuitions on Saturday so that I don't have to waste other days. True but it's super shag especially when the day started off with the challenging kid.
And I have to keep track of timing very closely so as not to be late for the next appointment.
Like that tuition, sibei shag. And if one tuition is delayed, everything else will be delayed.
所以搞到自己今天很喘！
到家晚上11点，看着那份FYP Research Paper，一点心情都没有。可是 by 明天，死死一定要吐出一些字。
神啊，救救我吧！
When I start giving tuition 7 years ago, I always remind myself that 世界上没有笨小孩，只有不用心的小孩。Up till now, this belief still holds strongly in my mind.
I had a new Primary Four boy 1 month ago, introduced by another student. Teaching him is a very depressing task. Every lesson, I look at him helplessly. Because,
I really don't know how to help him. Throughout the month, I tried different methods of teaching and different ways to deal with him. But I can't seem to find the correct way of doing things.
温柔地跟他讲解，他无动于衷。
喊他、骂他、对他凶，他也没感觉。唯有我失声了一个星期。
不管用什么办法，结果还是没有结果。
2 hours is too tiring for him.
1.5 hours, nothing much can be done. His corrections cannot even finish within that 1.5 hours. And he still needs me to re-do his whole school homework with him, which lasted more than 1.5 hours.
Throughout the years, when students come to me telling me that they don't like Maths or the fail their Maths, I can sort of figure out their problems and have the confidence that they will love Maths very soon.
But this time round, I have no confidence at all.
And the most disheartening thing is, there is no support from his family members at all. His parents spend their time managing their own business, leaving the house early and coming home late at night (around 10pm). So the kid spends his time watching TV right after he reaches home from school. Nobody guides him in his homework and he just anyhow does it.
I thought I can get some help from the family so I talked to the mother, telling her honestly that I have no confidence of him passing his exams. And indirectly telling her that she should coach him more, if not he won't be able to pass his primary school at all.
AND, GUESS WHAT THE MUMMY TELLS ME!!
“哎哟读不了书，最多去当咖啡仔咯。我可以养他！”
如果家长那么不负责任，那把孩子带来这世界有什么意义？
I seriously don't know how to teach him. His standard is really depressing.
AND, HE COMES LATE FOR MY TUITION. Because the mother left the house late, then there was a jam in PIE (they live in Bukit Timah). Last week, they were late for 35 minutes. Today, they were late for 20mins when I have already warned the parent one day before not to be late as I have another tuition to rush to after him.
Ok, this explains my very very hectic day.
This boy's tuition is 10am today at my house but he came at 10.20am. So I have to release him later, and his granny came late to fetch him, so in the end I was left with 10 mins to pack and eat lunch and rush off to Khatib for my another tuition.
Gosh, I can amazingly finish my duck rice in 7 mins. I don't think i chewed -_-
Then panting, I reached my another student's house in Khatib at 12.55pm and I die die have to end by 3pm as I have a keyboard lesson at 4pm in Bugis. So I walked and ran at the same time so that I can reach MRT station by 3.15pm to catch the train to Bugis and walked very fast to music school by 4pm.
Then played the piece hastily. Not very happy with my performance today :(
Went to meet Andrew for dinner after that. Thank goodness I don't have another tuition at 7pm, if not I will just die.
Aunty says it's good to squeeze all tuitions on Saturday so that I don't have to waste other days. True but it's super shag especially when the day started off with the challenging kid.
And I have to keep track of timing very closely so as not to be late for the next appointment.
Like that tuition, sibei shag. And if one tuition is delayed, everything else will be delayed.
所以搞到自己今天很喘！
到家晚上11点，看着那份FYP Research Paper，一点心情都没有。可是 by 明天，死死一定要吐出一些字。
神啊，救救我吧！
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