A man shared his cultural struggles after he has problems with his Thai wife for deciding the best methods to teach their children.
Here is the story:
My wife keep give our pri school girl social media and forces her to dance and records videos and put it on Tik Tok. At first, I did not say much as I thought this is a woman thing.
But my daughter’s grades started to be very poor, I told my wife who is from Thailand about it and she ignores what I say and continues pushing our daughter to dance and record videos. My daughter has reached a point she is more excited at the amount of views on the video than her grades.
The joke is, I work in the IT sector and I know how money is made on social platforms. My daughter has like 50 followers after doing it for a year and most of them are my wife’s friends, which is very very bad and have not make a cent so far.
I told my other friends about it and they said: “Siam bu damn bo liao one keep do this kind of thing rather than earn money or educate themself”
I finally got into a quarrel with my wife telling her to stop letting our daughter go over her head with social media attention. She disagrees saying that it is fun. I shouted at her
“you want her to be uneducated same as you, then next time work disco same as you? You training her to dance like how you dance when you work in a disco. Or you want her to be like a normal girl growing up.
You want her to be like you? only seek attention on social media then don’t spend time earning money but doing all this nonsense.
I told her you are training her to be an attention-seeking w***re like you, the toilet no paper post-social media, the weather is rain post-social media, you put too much fish sauce in your food also social media. You are like a caveman that just discovered fire.”