More thoughts on regrets

Mom always said all parents want their children to realize their unfinished dreams. Whatever opportunity she didn't have as a kid, she wanted me to have in order to realize her dreams. For example, mom said when she was little she used to go into piano stores and just stare at the expensive instruments for hours, really hoping to buy one for herself. But she couldn't afford it and she never got to play a piano.

When mom got her first big paycheck which was just enough to buy an instrument, she bought a piano for me almost the minute after she cashed the check. Mom said, "It's too late for mom to pick up an instrument now. I just want you to have all the opportunities I wish I had growing up, so when you grow up you don't have any regrets."

That is so so true. Now whenever I regret something or I really don't like something about myself, I think about how I can make up for it. The only tangible solution I can think of is to educate my daughter the right way and give her all the advices and opportunities I wish I had growing up.

Ai....I regret I wasn't interested in subject in college and that's why I fell into MSE. To makeup for that, I will expose my daughter to a variety of academic and extracurricular activities in order to stimulate her interest. When she goes off to college, I 100% encourage her to pursue her interest and dreams (provided she doesn't major in something totally useless like.......mmm.....). heheh ok ok... i guess I support her interest 99.9% of the time. If she is still not sure what she's interested in, I would advise her to major in CS, ECE or Premed (hahha i don't know if those subjects will be obsolete by then). If she is still not sure, I would tell her to consult professors and her peers for jobs that bring in a lot of $$$$.

I also hate it that I am not particularly good at anything. I used to be really good at piano, but after I gave that up. I've been pretty average in all activities. So for my daughter, I will encourage her to pick one or two hobbies and never give them up. Oh yeah btw, I was amazing at tiao pi jin (jumping rubber band or Chinese jump ropes) in China. After I moved to Canada though, that was gone too.

Oh my god, with all these child education experience that I accmulate in my head everyday, my daughter is going to be so successful. Damn...