Sus same here Bran, that's what my Ninang (where I stayed and grew up with) always told me.
One night when I asked her to help me my mathematics, and O boy did I ever regreted it. Why? I end up sobbing with tears while doing it. What she did was, she made me memorized the multiplication from 1-10 and so forth, then wrote it down. When I made mistake, she hit my head so bad and when I made mistake writing down the correct answer and erased it, she hit me again. I can go on and on and on how she always sermoned me about studies. But I just don't want to remember it again.
Just later in life I realized that she was right it's just that, she could have made it a little gentlier.
My father wasn't that strict because of how he was brought up.
It was my mother who encouraged me well and worked her ass off so I could finish because that was the time that I left my ninang house, just couldn't take it anymore.
About the compliments by your parents, I don't want to comment on it Bran. It's not my position to judge your parents how they praise their children. I don't know if I will praise or feel sorry. I'll leave it to that, hope you don't mind.
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