New Roman"> A gray sweater hung limply on Tommy’s empty desk,a reminder of the dejected boy who had just followed his classmates from our third-grade room.Soon Tommy’s parents,who had currently separated,would arrive for a conference on his failing schoolwork and disruptive behavīor.Neither parent knew that I had summoned the other.
Tommy,an only child,had always been happy,cooperative and an excellent student.How could I convince his father and mother that his recent failing grades represented a brokenhearted child’s reaction to his adored parents’ separation and pending divorce.
Tommy’s mother entered and took one of the chairs I had placed near my desk.Soon the father arrived.Good!At least they were concerned enough to be prompt.A look of surprise and irritation passed between them,and then they pointedly ignored each other.
As I gave a detailed account of Tommy’s behavīor and schoolwork.I prayed for the right words to bring there two together,to help them see what they were doing to their son..But somehow the words would not come.Perhaps if they saw one of his smudged.carelessly done papers…
I found a crumpled tear-stained sheet stuffed in the back of his desk,an English paper.Writing covered both sides---not the assignment,but a single sentence scribbled over and over.
Silently I smoothed it out and gave it to Tommy’s mother.She read it and then without a word handed it to her husband.he frowned.Then his face softened.He studied the scrawled words for what seemed an eternity.
At last he folded the paper carefully,placed it in his pocket,and reached for his wife’s outstretched hand.She wiped the tears from her eyes and smiled up at him.My own eyes were brimming,but neither seemed to notice.He helped her with her coat and they left together.
In his own way God had given me the words to reunite that family.He had guided me to the sheet of yellow copy paper covered with the anguished outpouring of a small boy’s troubled heart.
The words, “Dear Mum…Dear Daddy…I love you…I love you…I love you.”
我们常说父母是儿女的一面镜子，一个孩子的成长环境对其未来起着决定性的作用。一个在温暖和睦家庭中成长起来的孩子和一个天天在打打闹闹，没有相互体贴，关怀，友爱的家庭中成长起来的孩子，其心理存在着强烈的反差。前者会对社会充满着美好的憧憬，遇到困难时能乐观的面对，因为他心中有爱；而后者，会在挫折中怨恨社会，怨恨周围的一切，因为他们从小就没有感受过爱，因此，他们回觉得世界本来就是冷漠无情的。所以，孩子的成长环境会决定他们的未来。
