The two children I wrote about in the previous blog have parents who are professional high earners. Yet I find them as curiously deprived children. One would imagine after school they would be transported home and fed by a family maid. Interestingly, the elder one was dropped off early morning at a tuition centre. He does homework and eat an early lunch at the centre. Then he was sent to school by a centre driver.
The girl was dropped off at school every morning. After class she and 25 others travelled in different vehicles to the home of her class teacher. An Indonesian maid served a simple lunch. The 26 children do home work in whatever space they could find in the teacher's home.
My children did not own gadgets as these two did. But the former grew up with a lot of my time and attention. We may not eat in very expensive places. Yet within out humble means, they are exposed to a wide range of different food. The two, I recently cooked for in December, seemed totally out of the normal range . As I talked about old cucumber soup, lotus root soup and potato-tomato-carrot soup (ABC) soup, they looked blur. But they regularly drink lady fingers soup. After all, grandma plants ladies' fingers year round in her land.
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