{"id":2906,"date":"2019-07-22T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:23:38","slug":"puppy-love-monkey-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/puppy-love-monkey-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppy love? Monkey love?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a quick chat with Ita yesterday.\u00a0 I asked her about what’s new and what’s not about school.\u00a0 She told me about some teenage angst among the form 5 students.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Among the students who she mentioned was in my class.\u00a0 When they caught the form four student last April due to “energy booster” stuff, I wrote to all my former form 4 students<\/a> a letter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a bit busy off lately.\u00a0 I don’t think I would have enough time to write each and every one of them a letter.\u00a0 But I will meet some of them this Friday for our tuition class in sha Allah.\u00a0 So, I would have a pep talk with them.\u00a0 There are various issues that teachers are worried about.\u00a0 Among the issues are coupling, same gender close relationship, a minor brawl (this one is due to minor misunderstanding between a senior and a junior relating to defending one’s girlfriend) and lack of motivation in their study.\u00a0 Some of the issues are part and parcel of life.\u00a0 As teenagers, they are exploring their identity and thus they need to learn to negotiate with others.\u00a0 It is not easy to do that.\u00a0 They need guidance and lots of patience from other adults.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the thing is, when it comes to opposite gender relationship, for some teachers, it is too early for them to explore in that area.\u00a0 For me, it is ok as long as they know the boundary that they have to abide according to Islam.\u00a0 A normal note from one to another is common.\u00a0 To meet or hang out at the mall is normal (of course this is not right if you don’t observe “the” guideline).\u00a0 Some of them might say that their parents met when they were at school.\u00a0 They were high school sweet hearts.\u00a0 So sweet right?\u00a0 Yeah right.\u00a0 Now, their children are following their parents footsteps.\u00a0 Of course, this makes thing a bit challenging for the teachers because on one hand. the parents are ok with that and on the other hand, the teachers don’t want it to become a culture at school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people can balance their act when it comes to studying and coupling.\u00a0 But if you have string of Cs and Ds, it clearly indicates that you need to focus on one aspect more than trying to focus on both.\u00a0 But again, it is choice.\u00a0 At the end of the day, the students need to decide and be accountable towards their decision.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a quick chat with Ita yesterday.\u00a0 I asked her about what’s new and what’s not about school.\u00a0 She told me about some teenage angst among the form 5 students.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Among the students who she mentioned was in my class.\u00a0 When they caught the form four student last April due to “energy booster” … Continue reading Puppy love? Monkey love?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-development","category-personal","category-random-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}