I sold grilled fish in the 70s!

Chapter 186 The Vanished Innocence

But we've gotten so used to helping with the housework! Suddenly being told not to do chores feels a little strange! We don't know what to do to pass the time.

Hehe! Zhuzhu, you still don't understand what I'm trying to say. It's that nowadays, you kids don't have to do any chores! You have plenty of time to study.

Zhu Zhu suddenly realized what was going on after hearing that!

Yes! Now Jianmei and I don't have to do farm work anymore, and we can study in peace. In my previous life, although I went to university, I was only half-playing and half-studying.

As a result, it was difficult for him to find a good job after graduating from university. Then look at his two younger sisters, Jianmei and Jianying, who in their previous life studied hard with a book all day long in order to become teachers.

The teaching profession was considered a very good one, both in the 1970s and in modern times. Teachers not only have weekends off but also long summer and winter vacations. Therefore, older generations would always advise their children to study diligently and get into a good university.

The idea that graduating from university guarantees a good job is deeply ingrained in the minds of our generation. We viewed studying as a noble endeavor.

When we were children, adults always loved to tell us, "Child, you must study hard! Then you won't have to work as hard as we do, toiling in the fields every day. It's so tiring!"

However, it's unclear when it started, but some children have begun to develop a strong aversion to reading. This may be because parents today place too much hope on their children.

So nowadays, children's time is so full that they don't have any time to do what they want.

I had already been teaching for five days straight and was exhausted, so I needed to rest and relax. But my parents had filled my weekend with activities.

As a result, children don't have enough time to rest and recharge, and excessive mental exertion is a problem that parents often overlook.

Therefore, some children nowadays are becoming increasingly afraid of learning. Many children feel that when their parents ask them to do homework, it's as if they are being forced to do something very painful.

It also lacks the passion and enthusiasm for learning that our generation has!

Perhaps it's because our generation was born in an era of extreme material scarcity! We've experienced hardship, so we're looking for a less difficult path. Famous sayings like "No pain, no gain" and "The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold" have deeply influenced our generation.

Perhaps it's because our parents didn't push us to study like parents do today. Instead, we were allowed to study as we pleased, and it didn't matter whether our grades were good or bad! We just needed to finish the homework assigned by the teachers.

After we finished all our homework, we would play games with our younger siblings in our yard. Around eight or nine o'clock in the evening, we would prepare to go to bed.

In her previous life, she used to lie in bed watching videos and playing on her phone in her spare time. She would often come across videos of a child doing homework until midnight. When she finished her homework today, she suddenly burst out laughing, and then immediately slapped herself a few times.

Hearing the commotion, the girl's mother immediately came to her room and asked what was wrong. The little girl, crying, said, "I'm done! I'm done! I finally finished the homework my teacher assigned me today!"

Our generation believes that no matter how hard we suffer, we can't let our children suffer! So whenever we have something good, our first thought is to save it for our children.

Due to the one-child policy, most families now only have one child. Therefore, parents and grandparents often dote on their only child.

While enjoying the doting love of their elders, the responsibility of studying hard and bringing honor to their ancestors when they grow up naturally falls on the children's shoulders.

In our time, if we were scolded by our parents, even if it was because we did something wrong and were given a few hard beatings with a stick, as long as we sneaked out to play with our friends when our parents weren't looking, everything would be fine.

But children today don't have the same freedom we had as children. When they make a mistake and are scolded by their parents, because most people now live in apartments, they can only lock themselves in their rooms after being scolded by their parents.

Silently shedding tears! The children had no choice but to keep their negative emotions to themselves. Over time, these negative emotions were not properly released, and the children developed depression.

But think about it carefully: back in the 1970s, did we ever hear of any children getting depression? Childhood should be a happy time for children.

Zhuzhu! Zhuzhu! Zhuzhu! Longzhen saw Zhuzhu standing there staring blankly at one spot, so he called her name three times in a row.

Oh! What do you need me for? Do you want me to make you some delicious taro dumplings? Since you want to make taro dumplings for the temple, shouldn't you have prepared some delicious biscuits beforehand?

Longzhen could tell that Zhuzhu wasn't really focused on her studies at the moment, so he said, "Since you don't have anything to do right now, could you crumble all the cookies on the stove?"

It's already so dark, I really don't know if we can turn all of this taro paste into taro dumplings tonight.

While talking to Zhuzhu, Longzhen grabbed a large piece of taro paste in her hand and gently squeezed it. When she felt a hard lump in the taro paste, she picked it out and threw it into the sink next to her.

Longzhen felt she had removed all the lumps from the taro paste. She then placed the tapioca starch beside her and was about to pour it into the taro paste when she seemed to remember something and put the tapioca starch back on the stove.

Upon seeing this, Zhuzhu used her hands to roll up both of Longzhen's sleeves high.