Don't let children win always , daily warns parents

parents should not encourage their children to develop the kiasu ( must win always) attitude by
allwowing them to skip school just so they can do their own revision at home.

Nanyang Siang Pau, in its editorial, said that by doing so, parents were actually teaching their children
to disrespect discipline and this could lead to unhealthy developments.

The daily in its editorial said a recent revelation that over 20000 of 111484 students with disciplinary
problem had played truant.

Parents allowing children to miss school is the most serious social and family education problem.

“ it shows that parents are being kiasu and trying to instil the same attitude among their children” it
said. It said the emphasis by certain school on academic results also had great influence on the
developments and the growth of the children's minds.
It is evident that many schools these days measure their achievements and gloru based on the
number of top students in public examinations.

This kind of mindset will not help in nurturing good learning attitude among students it said.

The daily said parents and teacher played a very important role in instilling good attitude.

It said 65% of thr students who were involved in the disciplinary problems were in secondary schools.
This is the time when they are going through puberty and can be easily influenced and changed by the
environment.
If schools do not guide them properly they will be easily frustrated and will tend to give up on their
studies it said.

Indonesia fans cheer in vain

Indonesian football fans who congregated at the indonesian embassy compound here to watch the aff
suzuki cup final live felt dejected following their team's defeat.
I am disappointed as I wanted indonesian to win but the malaysian side were very strong, especially
their defence said mohd saleh,28 after malaysia's 4-2 aggregate victory yesterday.
He was among the hundreds of fans who cheered indonesia non- stop till the end of the second leg
match
the fans had been optimistic before the start of the match and haad predictaed indonesian would score
more than three goals to overturn the first leg deficit and win the title.
Embassy staffer syukur kassim 35 said the match outcome was fair and the better team won.
Both teams were really strong but this year, luck was with the Malaysian team. They deserved to win
said syukur.
Another diehard fan, abilah 25 said he knew it would be an uphill task for indonesian despite playing
on home ground after falling three goals behind from the first leg the final.
Cleary Malaysia were too strong this time. But we will bring home the cup in the next tournament. He
added.
The minister counsellor {informatin, social and culture) of the embassy.