Brighter colour

As a parent, I could see how my son changes his learning style from a non-committed to a can't-wait-to-learn high school student when he started schooling abroad. Several parents whom I met here in Perth share the same scenario with their children. At first I thought it was due to the foreign culture and surroundings, but I think it is more towards how we perceive things in life and set our priorities. Friends have always been the biggest influence to my teenage children, and it is up to us to create a surrounding where they could look beyond the boundaries. And if that means pulling them from the complacent and familiar childhood surroundings, so be it. It's time to stop depending on the virtual global network to see the outside world, let's go there, and live it.