Writer Zhang Wenliang once wrote a prose poem called "Leading a Snail for a Walk":
"God gave me a task,
Tell me to take a snail for a walk.
I can't go too fast,
The snail has tried its best to climb,
Always move a little bit at a time.
I urge it, I bluff it, I rebuke it,
The snail looked at me with apologetic eyes,
As if to say, "People have done their best!" ”
I pull it, I pull it, I even want to kick it,
The snail was wounded, it was sweating,
Gasping for breath, crawling forward..."
When I first read it, I couldn't help but sigh,
Isn't that like me and my son?
He's the slow snail,
And I am the one who urged him, frightened him, blamed him,
Many times,
It's not that he doesn't want to do it fast, to do it well.
But that's all he has.
I couldn't do my best to meet my requirements.
At the age of three, he undressed for ten minutes,
I hate him for being too slow,
But I don't know the delicate action of unbuttoning,
How difficult it was for him;
At the age of five, he always couldn't go to bed on time.
I reprimanded him for rubbing,
But I don't know in the heart of a child before the age of 6,
It is impossible to establish the concept of time at all;
At the age of seven, he focused on no more than 20 minutes at a time when he wrote his homework.
I was mad at me,
But I don't know the attention of a child of this age,
Hold for no more than ten minutes at most.
I used to yell at him a lot, "How are you like a snail?"
Now I know,
In fact, he is a "snail".
Because
This is the necessary stage of growth,
Because the degree of his brain development can only allow him to complete this thing.