When spring came back to hunan's home for the rest of the year, i found that the problem of children left behind in rural areas was becoming more prominent and that it was really worth the hard work of parents
My home, in the remote countryside of hunan。
When they were young, they were poor and had little access to income, and their families depended on farming and raising chickens。
There is also no good road in the village, a mud road passes through the village, it becomes muddy as soon as it rains, and tractors are often trapped in mud pits, requiring a dozen workers from the village。
The village is not very popular either, and most families have children who drop out of school after middle school and are better off completing high school and then working。
My family is a special case, and although the family situation is poorer than most in the village, my parents insist on sending me and my sister to college。
There are two main reasons。
One reason is that my family is too poor to get rid of the fate of farming and working。
The father believed in “knowledge creates wealth and books change fate”, and he often told me that “everything is better than reading”。
Another reason is that my sister and i have been doing very well, always at the top。
Short-term poverty and family distress often make parents look down on their heads and speak out, but when it comes to the two children, their back poles are straight and their volume is a few points。
Father always told people we were his pride。
My sister and i didn't disappoint their parents. They went to 985 and 211, and then they went to college。
Sister, the first university student in the village, the first master's degree and the first doctorate。
Later, the village became more and more popular and was somewhat influenced by the interest of our children。
Now that we've been working for over 20 years since we graduated from college, what is the situation of the children in the village
When i came home this spring, i made a special visit and found a prominent problem。
That is, there are too many children left behind。
There are more than 40 families in our village, and there are more than 50 children left behind, almost one in each family and two in some。
Young people who have married children go out to work, mostly together, leaving their children to the elderly。
Older people are able to feed their children and not to freeze, but have difficulty balancing their schooling and mental health。
There is also the difficulty of controlling smartphones, which parents usually provide to their children in order to facilitate contact between working parents。
Contacts are convenient, but older people can't handle their children's mobile phones, basically just leave them alone。
Some kids even sneak their phones to school。
Underage children play mobile phones all the time, and they're almost useless。
Sometimes i wonder, what are the plans for parents who leave their homes to break silver
What's the point of working when the next generation is gone
But if we don't work, how can we make money in the countryside? What do they take to feed their families? What's a better future for the kids
A brick can't hold a baby, a baby can't hold a brick。
It's a choice in life. It's a choice
