1.

Do I want to be the person sitting on the roadside applauding?

My daughter who is in junior high school, her classmates call her No. 23 .

There are ***50 people in her class, and her daughter ranks 23rd every time she takes the exam.

As time passed, she got this nickname, and she became a veritable middle-class student.

We found this nickname harsh, but my daughter happily accepted it.

My husband said worriedly that when it comes to company events or old school reunions,

Everyone else praises his 'little superman', but he can only act somber.

My children not only have outstanding academic performance, but also have many talents.

Only girl No. 23 in our family has nothing worth showing off.

Therefore, when he saw the children with extraordinary talents in entertainment programs, his eyes lit up with envy.

Later, when he saw a report about a nine-year-old child going to college, he asked his daughter very hurt:

"Child, why are you not a child prodigy?" ”

My daughter said:

“Because my father is not a priest!”

My husband was speechless and I couldn’t help laughing.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, relatives and friends gathered together, filling a large box.

The conversation gradually turned to the children of each family.

While you are in the mood for wine, ask the children to talk about what they will do in the future?

Pianists, celebrities, and political dignitaries, the children have no stage fright.

Even the four-and-a-half-year-old girl said that she would be a TV host in the future, which won her a lot of admiration!

The 15-year-old daughter was picking crabs, peeling shrimps, and serving soup for her little brothers and sisters. Wiping his mouth, he was very busy.

Everyone suddenly remembered that she was the only one left silent. Under the urging of everyone, she answered seriously:

"Growing up, my first ambition

is to be a kindergarten teacher, leading the children to sing, dance and do game. 』

Everyone politely expressed their approval,

then asked her about her second choice. She said openly:

"I want to be a mother, wearing an apron with a jingle cat printed on it, cooking dinner in the kitchen,

and then telling stories to my children and leading them Watch the stars on the balcony. 』

The relatives and friends looked at each other in astonishment, not knowing what to say.

My husband looked extremely embarrassed.

After returning home, he sighed and said:

‘Do you really plan to let your daughter become a kindergarten teacher in the future? Are we really watching her become a middle-class student? 』

In fact, we have also used a lot of brains. In order to improve her academic performance,

hired a tutor, enrolled in tutoring classes, and bought various materials.

The child is also quite sensible. He stopped reading comic books, quit the paper-cutting class, and gave up sleeping in on the weekends.

Like a tired bird, she rushed from one class to another, doing piles of papers and exercise books.

But he was still a child, and his body couldn’t bear it anymore and he got a bad cold.

She persisted in doing her homework even though she was hooked up to an intravenous drip and was in the hospital bed, which eventually led to pneumonia.

After recovering from the illness, the child’s face became smaller.

But the final exam results were still the 23rd that made us dumbfounded.

Later, we also tried to increase nutrition, material incentives, etc.

After repeated attempts, our daughter’s face became increasingly pale.

Moreover, as soon as she was about to take the exam, she started to suffer from anorexia, insomnia, and sweating.

Then she got 33rd place in the exam, which shocked us.

My husband and I quietly gave up the vigorous activities of plucking seedlings to encourage growth.

Restored her normal schedule, gave her the right to draw comics,

allowed her to continue to subscribe to books and newspapers such as "Children's Humor", and the family became stable for a long time.

We feel sorry for our daughter, but in the face of her grades, we are also unspeakably confused.

On the weekend, a group of colleagues went on an outing together. Everyone cooked their own special dishes and took their husbands and children for a picnic.

There were lots of laughter along the way, as the children from this family sang and the children from that family performed skits.

My daughter doesn’t have any special skills, she just claps happily.

She ran to the back from time to time and looked after the food.

Put the tilted lunch box in place, tighten the loose bottle caps, and wipe up the juice that flows out.

Busy, like a careful little housekeeper.

During the picnic, an unexpected thing happened.

Two little boys, one a math genius and the other an English master,

Both of them held a piece of glutinous rice cake on the plate at the same time, and neither of them wanted to let go, let alone share it equally.

The sumptuous food was served in a steady stream, but they didn’t even look at it.

The adults laughed and sighed, and even tried to persuade and coax, but to no avail.

In the end, it was my daughter who easily broke the deadlock by tossing a coin.

On the way back, there was a traffic jam and some children became anxious.

My daughter’s jokes came one after another, and everyone in the car was amused.

Her hands were not idle either. She used the colorful paper boxes containing food to cut out many small animals, which attracted the admiration of these children.

Until they got off the bus, everyone got their own zodiac paper-cut.

Hearing the children thanking them profusely, my husband couldn’t help but smile proudly.

After the midterm exam, I received a call from my daughter’s class teacher.

First of all, I learned that my daughter’s grades were still average.

However, he said:

"There is something strange that he wants to tell me. He has been teaching for thirty years and this is the first time he has encountered such a thing.

There is an additional question on the Chinese language test paper: Which classmate in the class do you admire the most? Please tell me why.

Except for my daughter, all the students in the class actually wrote their daughters’ names.

There are many reasons: being enthusiastic about helping others, keeping promises, not being angry, being easy to get along with, etc. The most commonly written one is optimism and humor. ”

The head teacher also said: “Many classmates suggested that she should be the monitor. ”

He sighed: “Although your daughter has mediocre grades, she is really an excellent person!”

I jokingly said to my daughter: “You are about to become a hero.” ”

My daughter, who was knitting a scarf, tilted her head and thought about it, and then told me seriously:

“The teacher once said a motto: When a hero passes by, he must Some people sat on the roadside and applauded.... ”

She said softly: “Mom, I don’t want to be a hero, I want to be someone sitting on the roadside applauding.” 』

I was shocked and looked at her silently.

She quietly knitted the wool, the light pink threads, winding around the bamboo needles,

It was as if the time, inch by inch, was spitting out dots of flower buds in her hands. .

My heart felt suddenly warm.

At that moment, I was suddenly moved by this girl who didn’t want to be a hero.

How many people in this world longed to be heroes when they were young, but ended up becoming ordinary people in the world of fireworks.

If we are healthy, if we are happy, if we do not go against our own will,

Our children might as well be kind-hearted ordinary people.

When she grows up, she will definitely become: a virtuous wife, a gentle mother, and even an enthusiastic colleague and a kind neighbor

.

What’s more, she is the 23rd among the 50 in the class. Are we still not happy and satisfied?

We also want to be more superior and stand out! There are 27 more behind us. What about more than half of the children? If I were their parent

How should I deal with myself?

During those long years, she was able to live the life she wanted safely;

She did not learn badly. As a parent who teaches by example, I,

If you can educate your children to grow up and become useful people in society, you can comfort your ancestors.

What better future do you want to pray for your children?

Even if she can become a judge or an architect in the future, if her intentions are evil and her words are duplicitous, what's the use?

(Also: I think of what my father said to me. "I don't want you to become a talent, I just want you to be an adult." I always keep it in my heart.)

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2. Anyone who has a dream is great

——Written to my daughter who is studying in the first grade of Hengshui Middle School

Text/Xingtai Huzi

Baby:

Your mother and I have already received your letter. After receiving the letter, your mother and I were very happy. We read the content of the letter again and again. I don’t know how many times we read it, for fear of missing the important content of the letter. After reading the letter, my father and mother felt deeply: their daughter has grown up! My daughter is sensible!

Dad originally wanted to reply to you earlier, but he felt that many of the contents of the reply had not been fully considered yet. If the letter just says that you should eat well and pay attention to your health, it doesn't mean much. Dad felt that to reply to a letter, he should write something that would benefit his daughter throughout her life and become her lifelong wealth. The reply should be a family letter such as "Yan Family Instructions" and "Zeng Guofan Family Letter". Therefore, today’s reply was written by my father after careful consideration. I hope you can keep it in mind and put it into practice.

What dad tells you can be summed up in eight words: "Cherish", "Dream", "Perseverance", and "Gratitude". Below, Dad will elaborate separately.

First of all, you must know how to "cherish". People who know how to cherish are wise and happy people. Know how to cherish, and the sunshine will fill your soul; know how to cherish, and life will become warm; know how to cherish, and life will become eternal. People often feel sorry for what they have lost, but do not cherish what they have. There are only three days in a person's life, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Yesterday has passed no matter what, and cannot be changed; tomorrow has not yet come, and daydreams will not help; only today is real, and only by grasping today can we create a brilliant tomorrow. Only by cherishing the happiness you have today can you get more happiness in the future. Being able to cherish what you have today is a sign of maturity. This is the character you should have. You are now studying in Hengshui Middle School. I don’t know how many people are envious of you! This includes your classmates and people from your father's workplace. Several of my father’s colleagues have children who will take the high school entrance examination this year and also want to come to Hengshui Middle School to attend high school. As soon as they started working during the Spring Festival this year, they asked their father how to get to Hengshui Middle School. They said that no matter how difficult it is, they must try their best to get their children to study in Hengshui Middle School and strive to create superior conditions for their children to enter a good university. You see, they regard studying in Hengshui Middle School as an extremely happy thing. In this regard, you must cherish the opportunity you have now and the happiness of studying in Hengshui Middle School. Hengshui Middle School is a famous school in the country. It has a set of successful teaching experience and management experience, and a large number of high-level and responsible gardeners. If you study here, you have no reason not to study hard and not to get into a good university. .

Second, you must have a "dream". Dreams are stones, knocking out sparks of fire; dreams are fire, igniting extinguished lamps; dreams are lamps, lighting the way forward; dreams are roads, leading people to the dawn. There is a saying in an advertisement: "As big as the dream is, the stage is as big as the stage" and "Everyone who has a dream is great." In your daily studies, you should have a huge dream: I want to be admitted to the most famous key university in the country. Because only by getting admitted to the ideal university can you have a good future. Some people may say that there are thousands of roads to success, and all roads lead to Rome. But those are easier said than done. In comparison, the college entrance examination is the fairest and most just way to go. On this road, as long as you pay, you will gain, and your efforts are directly proportional to your gains.

Therefore, in the face of this chaotic world, you must not lose your mind, you must stay awake, and you must have your own dreams. Your task now is to study hard, make full use of every minute, and work hard for your dreams!

Third, you must also have "perseverance". It is not enough for a person to just have a dream, he must also have the perseverance to turn his "dream" into reality. The future is bright, but the road is tortuous. Because, on the road to realizing a dream, a person will encounter various ups and downs and setbacks. In the face of setbacks, some people choose to give up, and as a result, their dreams become fantasy; some people have perseverance and choose to persevere, and as a result, their dreams become reality and become the object of people's worship. As a person, especially when others do not understand or when we feel that our innate conditions are inferior to others, we must understand the true meaning of "perseverance". What is perseverance? Perseverance is a kind of spirit, a spirit of never abandoning or giving up, "the more frustrated I am, the stronger I will be", "the poor will become stronger, and the ambition will not fall into the clouds"; perseverance is a symbol and a spirit. A symbol of victory that finally belongs to me. If you have perseverance, you choose success. If you have perseverance, you choose brilliance. Without perseverance, you will never be able to taste the joy of "blowing away all the sand to see the gold"; lacking perseverance, you will never be able to be free and unrestrained as "let the wind blow from east to west"; "The power of heaven and earth will turn back" is just a distant dream.

Now, I will give you two examples, which will definitely inspire you. One is not understood by others, and the other is born with insufficient conditions. In the 1930s, the great leader and mentor Chairman Mao (Zedong) was repeatedly ostracized and attacked within the party and the military: he was removed from all important positions within the party and the military, and in the end only one Soviet was left. With the empty title of Chairman, none of his correct political and military advice was adopted. Mao Zedong was very depressed at the time, and even the logistics staff who distributed supplies at the time looked down upon him: when giving supplies to people, everyone else had a share, but not Chairman Mao. In Chairman Mao's own words: At that time, the house was crowded. Not only did no one come to the house, but not even the ghosts came, and even the ghosts thought I was unlucky. Despite this, Chairman Mao still had the perseverance to stick to his dream and eventually became the founder of New China. People as talented as Chairman Mao have encountered setbacks on the road of life. Isn't it normal for us as ordinary people to encounter some setbacks?

On September 18, 2010, Philippe, a 42-year-old French man. After an arduous journey of 13 and a half hours, Croison set a record for the world's first amputee with all four limbs to successfully cross the English Channel. After completing the crossing, although his whole body was sore, he was very excited and said that he was the happiest person in the world. He also hopes to use his own example to show the world that as long as you have a dream and have perseverance, there is no goal that cannot be achieved. With Philip. Compared to Croisson, aren't you in a better position than him? Compared with your classmates, your intelligence is no worse than theirs!

Fourth, you must know how to "be grateful". "Grateful heart, thank you for being with me all my life, giving me the courage to be myself. Grateful heart, thanking fate, I will cherish the flowers when they bloom and fall..." The song "Grateful Heart" makes people understand There is such a truth: without sunshine, there is no warmth; without water, there is no life; without parents, there is no ourselves...

Gratitude is not only a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, but it should also become Your own rules for being a human being. Only when a person knows how to be grateful, he will have more and more friends, and his future life path will become wider and wider. Think about it, who in the world wants to make friends with an ungrateful person? The true meaning of gratitude is repayment. Maybe your teachers, your friends, and your parents don't expect you to repay them, but you must have a grateful heart to repay them. The prerequisite for repaying is the ability to repay. If a person can't even support himself, how can he repay him? Therefore, your task now is to study hard, learn your true skills, and become a person who makes outstanding contributions to the country and society. Many years later, when your teachers, your friends, and your parents talk about you , when you become the object of their pride and pride, this is a good repayment to them; when you can do something for them with great ease, that is a higher level of repayment, that is a higher level of repayment. "grateful". Therefore, in order to be grateful, you must study wholeheartedly and strive to hand over satisfactory answers to them with excellent results.

Baby, daddy will write to you today.

These words that Dad has told you are not only useful today, but will also be useful in the future. I hope you will keep them in your heart. Finally I wish you all the best.

Dad

3. Awakening

I suddenly realized that time passed so quickly! In a blink of an eye,

The most critical moment has been reached.

Suddenly filled with tension and

helplessness. Like a flower crumbling under the wind and rain, the next second may be the arrival of death.

In the past,

I never knew how valuable time is. Always put extracurricular matters before class.

It seems that I have never really listened to the teacher's class

. I always thought, it doesn’t matter, there is still tomorrow. Tomorrow, I will say again, it doesn’t matter, there is still

tomorrow.

Tomorrow after tomorrow,

It seems that there is always a tomorrow behind that will never disappear.

However, for us today

how many tomorrows are waiting for us? If you count on your fingers, it only lasts for half a year. After half a year,

tomorrow, what meaning will it have for us today?

The flower was knocked down mercilessly in the wind and rain,

because it did not have the determination to face the wind and rain bravely;

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But strong

It is tenacious because it firmly believes that facing bravely is the prerequisite for victory! Then, at this time, I am just like the grass in the wind and rain. I firmly believe that if you face it bravely, you will be able to overcome the so-called wind and rain! The third year of high school is like the boundary between life and death. A single step of difference determines the joy and sorrow of a lifetime;

A momentary thought determines the happiness and sorrow of day and night.

I don’t want to shed tears of regret,

so I decided to choose today’s hard work.

"One plow, one harvest"

I know that after suffering there will be sweetness waiting,

so I decided to face everything today bravely. No matter how bitter and tired you are, the bitterness will disappear when you think of the joy afterward.

I firmly believe that you won’t regret it if you try! Therefore, I don’t want to fantasize about tomorrow anymore. Only by taking practical actions and bravely taking the most important step can your beautiful dream become a reality.

Awakening, at the most critical moment! !