A friend of mine called me today about her daughter who was born in the same year as my daughter but only around the end of the year.  She told me her daughter experienced tremendous changes this year. Plus she often feels bored at school.  I only told her to have the child read as much as she can. She feels her daughter already reads a lot and really see no point of reading like this. I did not say more.

I was a bit surprised that she called and talked about her daughter.  Because I remember she is not a devoted parent as some of my friends are.  She used to spend a lot of time watching TV and on other self-entertaining activities. I wish I could share with her more on reading and the parenting and understanding of teenagers, yet I held myself back. I did not even share with her this site. I know she is not interested in listening or reading whatever I write here and will have time for it.

To be honest, she is one of the few carefree parents that I have ever known who loses no time enjoying herself.  She reminds me of one of our relatives.  That relative’s 25-year-old son is here with us.  Sometimes, I wish I could be that carefree and I would have the whole weekend for myself.  People are amazingly different.