As a child, I didn't have a "get my parents to help me with my homework" mentality.

"No kidding! I can't be so disgusting!"

It was the center of my thinking.

I've never done the "begging my parents for money" thing, with the exception of school fees or other necessities.

I mean - "I couldn't".

My family was not a wealthy one, and I watched (and sometimes helped) my father and mother run a downtown woodworking company, working for their "lives" in the true sense of the word.

# Really, both my father and mother was about to die several times and were hospitalized (including ICU etc.).

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My wife, on the other hand, had her father-in-law and mother-in-law help her with her homework, as was the norm.

She had a consistent policy of "use whatever it takes to make it easier" rather than "her pride," and she never felt guilty about it.

This is no longer a "right or wrong" thing to say, but rather a cultural difference.

Aside from that.

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The other day, my daughter told me

"The father of her friend asks his daughter, "Do you have anything you want? and buys it for his daughter"

At that moment, I thought, "It feels bad!"

Such a scene has never appeared in the Ebata family, and it will never happen.

If I have the money to buy my daughter until I "ask" her, I will buy what I want -- technical books, equipment, software, various data materials, and so on.

I've told my daughters, 'You get what you want by yourself' so they won't waste their time on me, either.

(To be continued)