My daughter Laura is twelve years old this year, and has been practicing Falun Gong for six years. The following are a few stories which have occurred during her cultivation:
1. Not forming the bad habit of forgetting things.
Once Laura told me that her friend Lisha’s mum is very nice. Every time Lisha forgets something when going to school her mum always brings it to school for her, although it takes forty minutes there and back. After listening to her I said: “I definitely would not bring to school the things you had forgotten.” Seeing a puzzled expression on Laura’s face, I said: “If every time you forgot something, and mum brought it to you, you would form the bad habit of forgetting everything. Whenever you forget something, you wouldn’t care much, knowing that mum is always there to help you. Now that you know mum won’t bring to school the things you have forgotten, you will try your best to remember to bring them. When you forget something now and then, the teacher will note it down or give you a five [In Europe one is the best, five is the worst mark], then next time you will certainly be much more careful. Because you are the student, it’s you who is going to school therefore you should remember to bring your things. We, as parents, can frequently remind you not to forget things. But I’d rather let you have a five for once rather than have you forming a bad habit like that. At the beginning it may be difficult getting accustomed to it but it will be better later when the habit is formed. Does Lisha still forget things often these days?” My daughter replied: “Yeah! She’s always forgetting this or that.” I said: “Mum treating you with strict requirements like this is helping to educate you into being a good child, a child who will excel wherever she is.” Laura’s impression turned from being serious to being relaxed. As a result she has rarely forgotten anything through all these years of schooling, and she has never needed help with packing her school things.
2. A conflict with the English teacher.
This winter, once after school, Laura looked very unhappy when she returned home. She complained to me: “No matter how cold it is, our English teacher always opens the window for five minutes at the beginning of every lesson, saying that it’s letting the fresh air in. But I sit right next to the window. It’s really cold, I can’t bear it anymore.” I embraced her and asked: “Can’t you put on your coat?” “The teacher doesn’t allow it, she says it’s only five minutes and that it will pass quickly. The English teacher is also very irritating, every time when opening the window, she always turns to me and says: ‘Laura, you need to endure the cold for a bit now.’ Mum, I want to change seats; I don’t want to sit next to the window anymore.” Seeing her pained expression, I said to her: “Don’t forget, you are a young Dafa practitioner! If you, as a practitioner, cannot bear it, then think how the others would cope. How can you pass this suffering on to others? Next time when you have an English lesson think to yourself: ‘I am a young Dafa disciple; however cold it is, I don't fear it. If I can’t bear it, then others can only bear it less.’”
From then on I never heard Laura mention the cold.
3. Bravely becoming a little translator.
A few days a go I had the chance to share experiences with fellow practitioners who run Dafa websites and I learnt that now there is a shortage of interpreters. Sometimes there are very few articles on the websites for this reason. He called for any practitioners who are capable enough, to put in extra help to translate articles from English therefore I thought of my daughter Laura. Although she has only been learning English for two years, she has learnt it without any difficulty. I have never seen her memorise words, nor read any English books, but she is always top of the class. Once at a parent-teacher meeting I asked the English teacher: Is Laura’s English really that good? The teacher said determinedly, it is really that good. I thought about downloading some articles from the English Minghui website (also known to westerners as Clearwisdom) to try and let Laura translate them. Thereupon I told my daughter about this idea. My daughter really didn’t refuse at all, and confidently said:” OK!” Seeing her relaxed expression I continued to ask: “What I mean is, it’s not just one or two articles and then we finish, but it’s one after another, non-stop translation.” My daughter still said confidently: “No problem.” Just like that, twelve year-old Laura became a little translator for Falun Gong websites.
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