#0689 Opportunities for my children

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Inner Peace Be Upon You

# 0689 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Opportunities for my children

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I am on the train this morning, and my normal routine is

to read for my classes at night. As I started to get into

my Corporations reading, I overheard the woman next to me talking

to someone about opportunities for her children.

She was talking about how some parents send their

children to boarding school, or private schools because

the public school systems aren’t that great.

This is the going trend. Sending children off to “prestigious”

schools at a very young age so that these children

can make the most out of themselves and have

opportunities in the very competitive economic environment

that we live in.

As she was saying all of this, it made me realize just how

much of a business children have become as it pertains

to getting the “best education” money can buy. The tuition

for these schools is not cheap. I have colleagues who are paying

up to $15,000 per year for their children who are only 6 years old.

That is about half of what I am currently paying for law school per

year.

What often happens is parents tend to forget that children are in fact

still children. Yes, their brains are in developmental mode, but it

does not mean that love, care, and attention should be placed second

on the priority list, which is often what does happen when

children are placed in an environment early on that focuses on

strictly doing well in school, being in the top of their class, and starting

the competition very early on.

I don’t have anything against private schools or boarding schools or competition.

People who know me know that I value education dearly, I graduated

at the top of my class at each level of my education, and I am very success

driven. Yet, they also know that I am a product of the public school system.

I also don’t mean to make any judgments on parents who do send

their children to private or boarding schools. With my own children,

if my wife and I think any of our children has the need to go at a faster

pace in anything that interests them, I will be extremely supportive

including sending them to a private school. However, I also know

that I do not want to do it at the cost of their childhood or decreasing

quality time with them.

The reason why I have been able to do so well is at an early age is

I received love from my mother and father. I remember my mother

would take time to tutor me, nurture and tend to my needs as

my brain was developing, and make sure she did her part to

ensure my success.

Often these days, we tend to substitute our role as parents and

place full responsibility on the teacher and the school system.

We associate with the fallacy that if our children are in the best

schools even at the expense of them being children, that it’ll be

worth it.

Perhaps the opportunities we need to create for our children

is not to be found outside in private schools or boarding schools,

but inside the home where a lot of skills are learned from interactions within

the family structure.

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