收到一位朋友 vyvy 的見解，原想在 comment 欄中 post 出來，但不成功。

很感謝各位朋友的意見，我与多位雖然素未謀面，但仍感受到各位對小丁的關心，無言感謝。

作為一個單親父親，在管教小孩子方面可謂費盡力心，一方面要顧及那小小心靈，但又不可過份放任，要教小孩子怎樣分辮是非，亦要顧及小孩子對母親的需要，那是一項很艱巨的責任。

一個人帶着孩子，雖有親人幫忙照顧起居，但看到孩子那被扭曲的價值觀，那种心痛，只有身為父母才可親身体會。

但我從未想過放棄管教孩子，因為連爸爸也撐不住，孩子又会變成什麼模樣? 

我也在fine tune 我的教導方法，在此，感謝各位的支持。

 

 

hi ding,

am sorry that you're going to have another long entry of response.

 

let me first say a little about ppl dropping random messages on other's blogs. i think u just want to express your feelings and hope people can lend you an ear, rather than giving you a lecture on this and that based on what you said without really knowing what is happening.

 

i understand how you feel and am believe that with consistent efforts, baby ding won't be 'shaped' by his mother's 'liberating' teaching approach. although it could take a little time for him to figure out why his dear parents hold different opinions, as mentioned by ang quoting Piaget's work on the congnitive development of children that children may not be able to do logical reasoning until seven years old or so.

 

however, his work is yet to be adequate enough to draw conclusions on your 'tyrannous' approach to educating your son, i think.

 

first of all, piaget's work is considered a radical change to educational systems and has inspired a lot in the educational systems in the u.s. and europe. as far as i know (correct me if i am wrong), his idea on intelligence that whether children should be 'crammed' with rules set by adults or they should be encouraged to explore and form 'rules' themselves used to be a hot topic in the 80's. NOW, people tend to see things from more perspectives. even piaget himself shut his mouth about this and start talking about other things like how children develop higher order thinking.

 

don't really want to say a lot of academic stuff here, but i would like to say that it's not appropriate to apply one single perspective, by the same academic, stated like over 25 years ago, to a real-live case which is about teaching the kid about correct moral values.

 

pedagogical approaches are debatable; learning beliefs are debatable; however, the correctness on moral values, is not.

 

there is always a crystal clear-cut on moral values, or ppl don't need to spend so much time reinforcing the importance of filial piety. of course, some parents are rediculous, being grateful to them is what we should do. u don't tell a 3-yr-old to judge whether it's appropriate or not to be grateful to your parents. i think that is rediculous.

 

i still remember on the first day of university, gertrude, a world renowned prof in the education field, told us that a teacher should be caring but firm. graduated from OISE, the top educational institiute in the northern america and canada, she still thinks building up certain thing (no tv games, for instance)as a  routine practice is a way to help humans get used to it. in the sociological perspective, it's true that schools are an institution to condition ppl.

 

don't you admit that every thing on the earth is a social institution? schools, prisons, churches, families. it's inevitable that we're socialized in a way.

 

but the father now is trying to help build up a good and healthy attitude to life. what's wrong with him? why do you make a big fuss of it?

 

i understand that there are many parents or ppl who have deviant beliefs. ppl who think buying magazines reporting explicit figures not a big deal, ppl talking about the private life of popstars as if it concerns them. well, how are ppl (not only young ppl, but all ppl in hk) going to 'judge' this when the majority is doing the same? don't you know, according to some big names in psychology, ppl tend to follow what the majority are doing?

 

if it goes on like like, i think more ppl are quitting teaching. it's just so unbearable. u need to 'reshape' the students, their parents and all the others….

 

原文 — whatding — 2006-11-05 13:39:39

星期日，應該是一家人共聚天倫的好日子。但星期日對於我們一家，就如登天一樣難。

在小丁眼中，爸爸与媽媽是不應該同時出現，所以，星期日，是小丁与媽媽的日子，而拒絕爸爸的出現。

爸爸心很痛。

痛的，是小丁該有的家庭概念，已消失得無影無踪。

小丁只有3歲半。

不能寫下去了。