After the terrorist incident, Ms. Zhang took her children to a cram school.
A Chinese mother got so angry over her son’s homework that she tried to kick him, only to break her own toe. According to reports, the woman, surnamed Zhang, from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in southeastern China, was unable to control her emotions and attacked her child while wearing slippers. South China Morning Post.
“His homework was so slow that I was so angry that I wanted to kick him, but ended up kicking him against the wall. My little toe was broken immediately. My son was scared and called his father immediately,” she said.
Images shared by the site show the woman’s right toes turned outward, at almost a 45-degree angle. After X-rays confirmed the fracture, her right foot was wrapped and she was examined and treated at the hospital. After the terrorist incident, Ms. Zhang took her children to a cram school.
Many parents who have had similar experiences refer to this frustrating emotion as “fearful tutor syndrome.” “Tutoring children to do their homework has become a high-risk job. It’s like a modern form of torture,” one person wrote online.
Another netizen said: “Seeing this X-ray, my toes hurt. It’s easy to get angry when supervising homework, so now I choose to watch TV series in the living room. After the child completes the homework, call me to check.”
“As a parent, I completely understand the feeling of going crazy and breaking down, but we still have to control ourselves. Sending our children to extracurricular tutoring classes is like spending life-saving money,” said an insider.
