圖文/明新正（MXZ）

兒子： “媽媽，這是學校發的獎金，給您。”

My son: "Mom, this is a bonus from the school."

媽媽：”又得獎了，自己拿著花吧。美國學校獎狀、獎金名義多，學習還是看成績如何，最近怎麼樣？”

Me: “You have won another award, just keep it for yourself. There are many certificates and bonuses in American schools. How well you study depends on your grades. How about your grade this year?”

兒子： “1st in a class of 187” (全年级第一名)

My son:" 1st in a class of 187”

媽媽： “全年級第一名？！這麼好！去年呢？”

Me: “First of the whole grade?! So good! How about last year?

兒子： “8年級也是第一，這是成績單。” （見下圖）

My son: "Also first in the 8th grade. This is the transcript." (See the picture below)

詢問下又得知兒子數學跳了一年已達10年級，英文也已是11、12年級的程度。

I learned from him that he had skipped one level in math and was already reached the 10th grade. His English level was already in the 11th or 12th grade.

兒子2023年9年級的成績單

My son’s 9th grade transcript in 2023

有“知”有“識”的小字典 A small dictionary with "knowledge" and "discernment"

對兒子教育一直是“放養”，學習靠他自覺，沒管過，也很少關注他的成績。他廣泛的知識涉獵，有幾次著實很讓我吃驚。

Free-range parenting is the form of parenting I give to my son. He relies on his own initiative to his study. I paid little attention to his grades and never take a look at his homework. I was surprised by his "knowledge" of many fields.

9歲時，上鋼琴課，老師講波蘭的鋼琴家肖邦，隨口問波蘭在哪裡，兒子說“在德國和丹麥的東邊”，老師也吃了一驚。這才想起，兒子經常在紙上畫圖，原來那是地圖。

When he was taking piano lessons at 9 years old. The teacher talked about the Polish pianist Chopin and casually asked him where Poland was. My son said "to the east of Germany and Denmark." The teacher was surprised. Then I remembered that he often drew pictures on paper, and it turned out that those were maps.

一次，我在網路上查閱二戰相关信息，問了问旁邊的兒子，二戰爆發的原因，沒想到他竟說了出來，各國的關係也描述的簡練、精準。

Once, I looked up some information about World War II on the search engine and asked him about the reasons for the outbreak of World War II. Unexpectedly, he gave me the right answer and also described the relationship between various countries concisely and accurately.

我好奇的又接連問了他一些各個領域的問題， “恐龍生存於多少年前？” 、 “米開朗基羅的名畫是什麼”…

I was so curious that asked him some questions in various fields, "How many years ago did the dinosaurs live?", "What is Michelangelo's famous painting"…

所有正確答案中，最讓我吃驚的是對“種族問題“的描述。 “有不讓同座等歧視，偶有嚴重致傷，但魔鬼利用種族問題挑起分裂，製造暴力“（大意，因兒子中英文混在一起說）這個回答已不只是”知“豐富，還要有”識“才能明辨的。

Of all the correct answers, the one that surprised me the most was the description of the “racial issue.” "There is discrimination such as not allowing seat together in the conflict, and occasionally serious injuries are caused, but the devil uses racial issues to provoke divisions and create violence is the core of the problem" This answer reflect that he is not only rich in "knowledge", but also have the "discernment" to see the essence of the things.

我常開玩笑的說兒子像個”小字典“。有什麼即時問題，尤其是總結性的，查他不比網路搜索來得慢。

I sometimes joke that he is like a "small dictionary". If you have any questions, especially those that are summary, checking him is faster than on the search engine.

”小字典“來自愛閱讀，他曾拿過多次學校讀書最多的獎金，教過他的老師對他都褒獎有嘉，意見竟是讓他好好聽課，不要上課老看課外書。

"Small Dictionary" comes from his love of reading. He has won prizes for reading the most books of the school many times. His teachers all praised him this good point but asked him to listen carefully in class and stop reading all the time.

不只課堂知識，學校圖書館也已經不能滿足他。他轉向了大人才看的報紙——英文大紀元，一拿到新報就如飢似渴的讀，一次竟跑到路燈下邊閱讀，邊等我們跟上來。他超越同齡的 ”知“”識“應該多是得益於此。

Not only classroom knowledge, but also the school library can no longer satisfy him. He turned to the newspaper that adults read - the Epoch Times. As soon as he got the new newspaper, he read it eagerly. Once he even ran under a street lamp to read while waiting for us to catch him up. His "knowledge" beyond his age should be mostly due to this.

在等爸爸媽媽跟上來的間隙，在路燈下讀英文大紀元，圖/明新正

While waiting for us to catch up, he read the Epoch Times under the streetlamp. Image: MXZ

不過兒子可不是學究，他還很喜歡音樂、舞蹈等藝術。

But he is not a pedant. He also likes music, dance and other arts.

藝術迷 An art fan

9到12歲學了三年鋼琴，10到14歲每天花兩、三小時在練小提琴上。

He played piano for three years between the ages of 9 and 12 and spent two or three hours a day on practicing the violin between the ages of 10 and 14.

一次問他，不看電影、沒有娛樂活動，行嗎？他說可以，如果不練琴呢，他說不行。他每天傳統的交響樂不離耳，尤其喜歡樂理，非常晦澀深奧的樂理知識書，他卻如飢似渴的當課外讀物，就像他有時捧著數學題庫做超越他年齡段的數學題一樣，對他來說都是樂趣。讓我給他買了好幾本樂理、作曲書，開始自學作曲。

Once I asked him, is it okay if he doesn’t watch a movie or doesn't have some entertainment activities? He said it's OK, but what if I don’t allow you to practice violin today? He said no. He listens to traditional symphonies every day. He especially likes music theory. In my opinion, music theory is very obscure and profound, but he eagerly reads it as an interesting book, just like he sometimes solve math problems beyond his age. It is all fun for him. He asked me to buy him several music theory and composition books, and gradually he began to learn composition by himself.

14歲開始又練上了舞蹈基本功，邊聽著交響樂，邊做拉伸。

At the age of 14, He started interested in classical Chinese dance, listening the classical symphony orchestra while stretching is his afterschool self-homework every day.

因為他是個神韻迷，神韻用舞蹈​​、音樂再現五千年中華傳統文化，深深的影響了他。我感恩神韻，引領孩子成為藝術迷，業餘時間全放在這些神留給人的傳統藝術上，遠離了”遊戲“、”網路“——含有很多思想毒品的現代事物。也發現原來一個孩子不被思想毒品幹擾，潛力竟如此之大。

Because he is Shen Yun fan, Shen Yun revives five thousand years of Chinese traditional culture with dance and music, which deeply influenced him. I am also very grateful to Shen Yun for guiding my children to become an art fan. He spends all his spare time on these traditional arts left by God and stay away from "games" and "internet" - things that contain a lot of ideological drugs. I also discovered that a Children have so much potential if they are not disturbed by those ideological drugs.

“放養”不放“心” "Free-range" without "letting go of his heart"

所有這些大多都靠兒子自覺，聽起來好像我這個媽媽很不負責任， ”放養“到連兒子成績如何都不清楚。其實我只對孩子的”心“負責，我體悟”心“是教育的根本，因為根深枝葉才會茂密。

Relying on his consciousness, it seems like I am a very irresponsible mother who doesn't even know what my child's grades are. In fact, I am only responsible for his "heart". I realize that the "heart" is the foundation of education like roots of a tree, because only when the roots are deep can the branches and leaves be dense.

我把法輪大法這個根本放在他的心裡，從小就給他聽法輪大法的講法錄音，在大法的呵護下，他一直聰明乖巧，詳見上一篇《兒子“自學成才”的秘訣》。

This roots like foundation are Falun DaFa. I put it into his heart. He listened to Falun DaFa Master Li Hongzhi's lecture since he was a baby. Under the care of Master Li and DaFa, he has always been smart and well-behaved. For details, see the previous article "The Secret of My Son's "Self-learning"".

現在學法、煉功是他為自己安排的必不可少的日常，他已經開始從理性上認識到大法，對照“真、善、忍“，向內找自己的不足。想較於成績、知識、興趣這才是讓我這個當媽媽的最欣慰的。

Now studying the Fa and practicing the exercises are essential daily routines that he has arranged for himself. He has begun to understand DaFa rationally, using "Truthfulness, Compassion, and tolerance" as his principle, and looking inward to find his own shortcomings and fix it. Compared with grades, knowledge, and interests, this is what makes me the most gratified as a mother.

兩代全年級第一名 First in the grade of two generations

對孩子如此，源自於我對法輪大法超常的切身體會。

Treating my son this way stems from my personal experience of Falun DaFa's extraordinary.
 

圖/大陸時某工作室拍攝的家居照：兒子4歲時和媽媽

My son and me when he was 4 years old
 

因為我也曾因修煉大法開智開慧，獲得過全年級第一名，詳見明慧網文：《重點大學全年級第一名的由來》。

Because I also won the first in the grade when I was in university and after I practiced DaFa to clear my mind. For details, please see the article published on Minghui: "How I Became a Top Student at an Elite University" 

感恩法輪大法，向師父致以我們最崇高的感恩。

We are grateful to Master, grateful to DaFa, and pay our highest gratitude to Master.

（通注：法輪大法裏邊的內涵非常的大，以上相關的只是在我這個境界中現有的體會而已。若有不妥，敬請指正。願您讀一讀法輪大法主要著作《轉法輪》，得法回歸。）

(Note: The meaning of Falun DaFa is really profound. This is just how I understand it now from where I am in my cultivation. I hope you can read “Zhuan Falun” and really gain the Fa.)