I was late for 5 minutes due to the trackwork today. As soon as I saw him getting down to open the door for me, I apologized for being late. He was like mehhhh...don't worry man, I was hoping if you could come a bit later since I haven't had my breakfast yet...>.> So I was waiting for him to finish his breakfast after I got into his house....He was OK-ish today except that he was distracted for a few times when his friend buzzed him down there, he then got shouted at by his mum because of that. Interruption, yes, really...He just asked me to wait a sec, and walked out of the room. I didn't know how long he'd take to talk to his friend if his mum didn't stop him. It was really a bad idea to know that his friend was waiting for him down there to play handball after the tutoring only started 15 minutes ago=.= I did realise how hard to get back his attention for this lesson immediately, so I didn't even give a shit for anything he said. Instead, I acted damn serious, asking him to do the most difficult exercise first to torture him. Normally I will start with some simple questions and slowly move to the hard ones, but I was being so harsh today in order to teach him a lesson of how to respect me, a tutor at the very least. He had his frustrating moment to the max thinking about how to get everything correct because I tried to annoy the shit out of him by fixing his recurring mistakes and testing him again and again until he got everything right. He kept saying he hates me so much. I thanked his hatred like a boss, replied with I hate him more. I was happy that he was tamed like a little lamb being so obedient throughout the second hour. He didn't talk much but follow what I asked him to do. Although there were several times when he seemed like he wanted to give up doing them, I used my own example to inspire him. And I guess that I have done a right thing. Nobody can truly feel how something is unless you have experienced it, and I have. Letting a kid know how he has to confront a problem is hard, really hard. The hardest part is, you say something that you think he'd understand what you mean by that, his lack of experience won't take your words seriously. So I had to use a simple example of my own to make that connection of what he called himself as 'dumbass not being able to do this and that, not good at anything in English'. His silent nod nod made me smile a bit because most of the time, he will either look elsewhere or tell me something else. I also think that his mum has just worried too much, but I am not saying it's not right. Having high expectation is necessary for every parent, but wanting a naughty kid to understand the importance of education is a tiring task. Even I feel so tired for his mum everytime when I tutor her son lol
PS: Ahhh....Can anyone tell me how to get rid of fatigue? I seriously do not want to be tired and shleepy easily=.= I need my time to do early workout and jog...I need more time to do a lot of things....and I don't want to be underestimated by her....
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