Don't trust grand parents for education

Fa Guo Shu Shu, that’s how the 3 years old boy and his 5 years old sister sharing our coach call me. That means French Uncle.They are loud, they jump everywhere, they never stop… I love them and so does their mum although she is describing them as not controllable…because of the grand parents!Ms Luo was working in Dongguan with her husband while, as in most Chinese migrants families, grand parents back in Chongqing raised the children for the first two years, before she quit her job and brought them back last year to Dongguan.‘Grand parents don’t really care about educating the children, but would rather enjoy a relaxed life with them. Feeding well and dressing well the kids is the only responsibility they consider, so they don’t make children work hard because anyway they won’t be there anymore to see the result, instead they just think about enjoying them today’.Now she wants to re take control on her children’s education and ensure they grow up hard working enough to survive in a Society that every Chinese I have met, agrees to describe as increasingly competitive.Then she adds: ‘In western countries, parents don’t put that much pressure on their child to succeed because they don’t rely on them for their old days’ and China may be changing fast, here is one thing that won’t change in the future, according to her.