My son was born on 23rd December 2006. So he is about 12 years old and he studies in class 6. His birthday comes exactly 2 days before Xmas. He was a healthy and active child since his birth. He did not cried much during his infancy. He just cried for milk and for nothing else. He is a very sporty boy. He loved to kick a football. He daily played with me and it was just kicking the ball by me and by him. He also loved to enjoy a swing. He is a great fan of cricket. He was quite young and one day he was walking with me and he saw that people were watching a world cup cricket match on a big cloth screen and my son said to me that we should watch this match. We got near to that place and a person stood up from his chair and he offered us to sit there and we sat in that chair and he enjoyed the match. Cricket is just in his blood though I never got much interest in cricket. He was fond of having an evening walk and he always took a walk daily and he regularly used to go to the park in the evening. Long before he started his education journey we started to teach him at home. We started by introducing him with English and Urdu alphabets. We brought a small whiteboard to teach him and sometimes he also used to make drawings on that board with a black marker. Soon he learned writing Urdu and English alphabets and he also learned to write the counting. I prepared for him some pages where I wrote alphabets and numbers with dots and I got several copies of those pages and my son regularly used to write on those dotted alphabets and numbers. I constructed simple English words to teach him English. For example the words like bit, kit, lit, sit. I just tried to use all the vowel sounds to teach him English sounds. He also loved to draw aeroplanes on the whiteboard. Then he started to go to school. From the very beginning his mother took the duty to teach him but her method of teaching was very harsh and blunt. She teases him a lot while teaching him. She gives him a lot of mental pain while teaching him. So I sometimes want to hate her because of her harsh and torturing teaching method. She cannot or does not want to talk softly. Though my son got always good grades but I feel that grades are worthless if they come after a great mental torment and I feel that her harsh teaching method has greatly damaged my son’s personality and this gives me some great anger and psychological pain. I asked her many times to be soft and considerate while teaching him but all in vein. She is what she is and she does not change herself and she does not want to change her teaching style. Several times I decided to teach my son by myself but I failed to convince him to study with me because he is so much attached to his mother. He does not want to study from his mother but he studies with her only out of fear. He thinks that if he will not study from his mother she will not love him and she will be angry with him. He always wants to win her approval. Whenever I decide that my son will study with me, he launches a great protest. He starts crying and he stops eating anything and he cries and cries. And everytime this happens I have to say that okay go study from your mom. They both fight and quarrel while studying. I shall explain in Part-2 that why they fight and quarrel while studying.
Thank you for sharing. It sounds like your son is homeschooled. You might want to look into unschooling if you aren't already familiar with it.