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We are living in a competitive society. We work hard and study hard in order to find and keep a good job. Because of the harsh reality of competition, many of us, from child to adult, live an busy life. I work at daytime and study at lunch break, night and weekend. I haven??t complained that much only because more or less I can find some happiness in arduous master study, though it appears as a real torture for me sometime. One of my friend share the some status quo with me: as a master student facing the impending graduation, she has to study hard to publish papers and finish the final thesis, at the same time, she has to haunt in job market to find a livelihood for her. Recently, she appears busier because she is preparing for Test for National Civil Servants. For us, life looks like a top. Maybe, as grown-ups, we have little excuse for complaining because life is the result of choices as Sartre once told us. We are free to many choices, hardship or laziness, better life or a relative worse life. But how about children??My son, an eleven-years-old boy, also strongly feel the pressure from the competitive society. In order to enter a key middle school, he expect to get straight A (3 As) in his fifth grade of primary school. The dream of the straight A has become the source of his anxiety, a stone over his mind. He keeps asking me what it will be if he can not enter that key middle school. Though my answer made him relaxed, I can still feel the lingering anxiety in his mind. I began to think about the issue of parental education, the advantage or disadvantage of happy education. If we choose to send our kid to learn a lot of extra courses, such as Olympic Mathematics and Star English, our kids will have little time to play and their childhood is definitely to be unhappy??if we offer them easy childhood, they will probably face a lost youth and adulthood (having little chance to enter a good middle school and university). A child who loves study is an ideal child, rare to meet in the real life because the nature of child is loving play. That seems like a dilemma?? Please visit unpersons blog.