What were the things your parents did right in raising you?

     Since I was 7 years old, when I started to go to elementary school, my parents very seldom took us to go to school. We walked to school which not far from our home, about  7 kilometers  After a few years, as we grew up, we learnt how to ride a bike and cycled to school, we became increasingly independent and seldom asked for our parents' help as we understood our parents were busy doing on their work. All the children in the family are more independent than those in other families.

    Our mother loves traveling. When vacations has been taken over 3 days, we arranged to go everywhere where we never visit. During our childhood, we did not have roadmap or google. We could ask the pedestrians, workers in restaurant or hawkers along the street about the direction how to go to the place we want to travel to. As mother as a driver in our car, if we got lost our way to the destination place, we would be assigned to get off the car and asked any strangers about the direction. All of us need to become brave enough to speak any language(Malay, English, Mandarin or Cantonese) with any strangers even we still young, under the age of 7 years old. None of us is introverted persons, we could speak any language without getting cold feet since we were very small.

    Our parents did not afraid to live lonely in their house, they encourage us to study abroad and working outside of our country. They did not wish us to live along with them as they know the situation in our country, the government did not welcome us and we cannot have a better life if we still keep staying here, therefore they hope us to broaden our knowledge by studying overseas. We are so grateful that our parents are open-minded to let us leave away from our home without hesitation. All the children are more brave enough to live independently in any country that we loved to.