(Minghui.org) My son was born on July 20, 1998. I started practicing Falun Dafa in February 1999. He was just seven months old at the time and was just able to sit up. Once our entire family was watching Master's Fa teaching video, and he was sick that day. He sat in his grandma's lap with his eyes wide open and watched Master's Fa teaching very quietly. He did not cry at all, and none of us knew what he was seeing. His symptoms went away without any treatment.
In 2002, I was listening to Master's Fa-teaching recording while he was playing. He was climbing onto the bed and all of a sudden he laughed and said, “Wouldn't it be nice if one didn't fight back when he was beaten or sworn at?” I was somewhat startled and smiled. I realized that, although he seemed to be just playing, he understood it all. From that time on, he never got sick and never needed to take any medicine. Before he went to the first grade, at the age of six he was already able to read Zhuan Falun to his grandpa, who was illiterate. After he returned from school, he taught his grandpa the movements of the Falun Gong exercises.
He made the same mistakes that others kids the same age did, including lying, stealing change, and fighting with classmates. But the difference was that after he made those mistakes, as long as we shared with him and showed him what Master taught us to do, he would soon realize his mistake and not do it again. He is now 14 years old and is over 5'9''. He knows how to behave and rarely makes mistakes anymore.
One of his classmates always went to game rooms to play video games. One day he commented to me, “Mom, he goes to play games every day. Won't he be in trouble if he continues to be like this? I'll find some time to talk to him and tell him not to do that anymore.” I was very pleased.
Nowadays the biggest headache parents have is the difficulty of educating their children. When we have reunions, we don't really talk about anything else besides how our children don't listen to us and have bad habits like smoking, having messy hair, wearing weird clothes, playing games, talking online for long periods of time, going to Karaoke halls, having boyfriends and girlfriends, and so on.
Very few parents know what to do about these things. Today's society is so diverse, and the kids are curious about everything. Since they don't have any criteria by which to judge good and bad, they want to try everything. My friends and classmates are all jealous of me and say I'm very lucky because my son is kind and wise, doesn't have any bad habits, listens to my advice, and gets good grades in school. I would always proudly tell them that it's because my son started practicing Falun Gong when he was small, and the children who practice Falun Gong pretty much don't need parents to tell them what to do because they can tell what's good and what's bad by themselves.
I want to share an event that happened in 2010. It was a Saturday, and my son had gone to his Fa-study group just as usual. Around 1 p.m. I got a call from him. On the phone he sounded very incoherent and said he had just eaten. I was confused, and then I heard an adult's voice say that my son had been hit by a bus and that I should come as soon as possible. I was stunned. I asked where they were and went right away. It was at an intersection near my home. A public bus was stopped on the side of the road, and there were many people looking on and talking.
As soon as I got there, they all stopped talking and looked at me. My son was sitting on the side of the road looking dazed. The bus door was open, and I could see peanuts, water bottles, and other trash on the floor. They had all been thrown to the front of the bus when it braked suddenly.
I looked my son over. He had a big cut on the left side of his head and some scratches on the right side of his body. There didn't appear to be any other damage. The driver was frightened and was just waiting for his parents so he could go to the hospital with them. I told him, “You don't need to worry. We both practice Falun Dafa and there won't be anything wrong.”
He still wanted my son to go to the hospital to be looked at just to be safe. He said, "Nowadays every family has just one kid, and it would be disastrous to the family if something happened to that child." Also, he knew how bad the accident was: My son ran across the road just as the driver was trying to accelerate through a yellow light. The collision threw my son into the cement curb.
The driver saw that I wouldn’t go to the hospital and wanted to give me money, but I didn't accept it. In the end, he left me his phone number and asked me to notify him if anything happened. I agreed. After I took my son home, he cried and said he had a headache. I told him that he would be okay and he just needed to believe in Master. That night he slept as usual and went to school the following Monday.
Some days later, my son told me, “Mom, the other day when I was hit by the bus, it felt as soft as cotton. But I flew into the air and my head hit the curb. That's how I got that cut.” I told him, “Without Master protecting you, apart from the bus going so fast, just hitting the curb would have killed you.” He smiled.
The driver later called me and I told him that everything was okay and my son was back to school. He couldn't believe it. He was so amazed and said, “Falun Gong is so miraculous!”
I then remembered that when I first got married, a friend's aunt who belonged to a minor cultivation way once said to me, “In your life, it seems to be destined that your child will be hurt.” I was still young then and didn't pay much attention. I remembered this after the accident happened and knew that Master had helped to resolve the situation.
Two years have passed, and my son is now in the eighth grade. He does very well at school and has gotten taller and more mature. During the time last year when I was detained for practicing Falun Gong, he was very calm and had strong righteous thoughts. Many of my adult fellow practitioners were impressed by his maturity and rationality at such a young age.
I cannot express enough my appreciation for Master and Dafa. I want to tell all the parents of young children not to listen to the evil communist party lies. Just the experience of my son and myself is enough to prove that Falun Dafa is good! By studying Dafa, your child will thrive and grow up healthy.
