Nowadays, we don't wear locks anymore, but the 12th birthday is still known as the round lock, which is a big birthday and should be celebrated. I think it's still meant to celebrate growing from gender-neutral child to teenager.
? Son, telling you about the origin of round locks on your 12th birthday is to tell you that you have reached another turning point in your life, and that this growth is the beginning of you injecting more responsibility into your life. On this day, I want to reminisce with you about every step of our growth.
At 2.5 years old, you entered kindergarten without a single cry and said goodbye to me happily.
At 3 years old, you became the youngest student of "Crazy Family", and tried "3D 5-square" for the first time for 8 consecutive hours, although you said it was a game, but do you know what? Although you said it was a game, do you know that you can accept and understand that there can be 12 kinds of rehearsal combinations of 5 squares, and directly from the plane method of collocation, crossing into the three-dimensional collocation, for the teacher and my shock is how great.
At the age of 4, you were asked by your teacher to take the Go exam for the first time, and again the smallest figure in the room entered the strange classroom helplessly for a whole day, and when you came out, you said to me that you would never come back. It was this reluctance to get along with the teacher that made me start to oppose all interest classes that forced me to take exams and participate.
? At the age of 5, you experienced the first move of your life, we switched to a new neighborhood, left the best friends you grew up with, and at the same time regrettably met the first teacher who physically punished her students.
? 6 years old, into the elementary school, you solemnly and I said from now on are not allowed to shout your breast name, can only shout you Chen Hao Yang. I actually really did, and since then friends who knew you thought your nickname was "Hao Yang".
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This year is the busiest year for me, I didn't take good care of you, and I always treated you unfairly in the fights between you and other kids, but you still got all the good grades, and you were kind enough to understand me.
? 8 years old, the school sent you the Beijing "campus star" registration form, limited places, the organizing committee teacher and I said "free preliminary, pay 200 yuan can be exempted from the preliminary, direct access to the rematch, you can get the second prize, want to get the first prize after the rematch to pay 600. After considering it, you told me that you would not participate in the competition. This is your first choice, you said: "Although I also envy a prize, but spend money to buy even if."
At the age of 9, you experienced your first international move, we moved from Beijing to the United States, and within two months of coming to the United States, you changed two schools. Faced with a different language, different habits, no friends, and even less help from mom and dad, you began to face school life alone.
At the age of 10, you joined the basketball and soccer teams, had your own friends, performed in the school play, and worked in the school safety zone and service club.
? At age 11, your English catches up with American kids your age and you start showing up with 4s in non-math subjects. You became the principal flute in the orchestra. You would talk with your best friends about getting perfect scores on all of your sixth-grade math tests.
I remember you asking me a question when you entered elementary school, "Why do you keep saying I'm the best when I'm not the best in the class." My answer at the time was, "Because every point you have now is something you got on your own, without me. So the higher the grade you get in the future, the better you will be." Today we look back and see that your elementary school life was indeed like that; you set a record of having all your homework done at school in a large environment like that at home, so much so that in 3rd grade, other parents would ask you when exactly you did your homework. Coming to the US, you went from needing help to being recognized by your classmates, and you were always approached for confirmation of all difficult questions. As a result of the move, you always grew in hope of acceptance and frustration to being surrounded by many close friends every day, and you were recognized by your friends for your hard work and strength. Looking back on this, I think you would be proud of yourself.
At age 12, you're about to enter middle school, which is a completely different system from your previous experience, and I believe you've grown enough over the years to be able to handle it with ease. Today I have no message and hope, we just reminisce, reminiscence of those step by step efforts to step through the footprints, that is the first memorial book of your life, is all your childhood. From today, you have started 6 years of teenage life, it is richer and more colorful than before, of course there will be confusion and sadness, as long as you have more judgment and responsibility, no matter how to experience it, it is wonderful.
If I was a guide for the first part of your life, walking with you through it, your teenage years, I will be a witness to it, and as Bell said, it's your journey, and it's just beginning.
Go for it, teenager!