After an agonizing finals week and a cutthroat application season, this group of international students has gone completely insane.
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Rather than losing your mind, send your parents to study abroad and let them experience the joy of studying abroad too 😊
In parents' eyes, their child can just walk into Cornell, and UChicago is a safety school❓
One netizen who has been studying at Cornell for two years still gets asked by their dad: Why not Harvard?❓
Maybe parents think they're top dogs, like breeds like, and their child can stroll into any prestigious school.
So Mom and Dad, you don't really think I didn't go to Harvard because I didn't like it, right? 😅
How did we end up listening to our parents and studying abroad? The story is full of tears. Overseas, we get compared; returned as a returnee, we still get nagged.
So many international students are sending their parents to study abroad, pushing their parents in return.
Let them experience the same detours firsthand. Go through an application season, cram for TOEFL and IELTS.
This Generation of International Students is Trending: Sending Parents to Study Abroad
These international students not only plan for themselves, but arrange their parents' future too.
Ask them and they're busy planning their parents' study abroad applications with an agency 👇
Hoping Dad Becomes a Dragon
Before, they just brought their dads along to study abroad; now, they directly send their dads to study abroad.
Netizen: Send uncle to the UK, he can be a study buddy with my dad 🙋
Sending parents to study in the UK or Australia is fine, but sending them to Germany is the ultimate display of 'fatherly kindness and filial piety'—i.e., tough love.
It's the kind of thing that makes Dad reflect on what he did wrong.
A sincere question on Xiaohongshu: Mom is 50, any country is fine, just make sure the academics are busy 🙏
Netizen's advice: Send her to Germany, you can visit auntie by the time you retire.
Dutiful children chime in: First choice Germany or Belgium, send a mom who studied Chinese literature to study engineering 😅
Comment section agrees: Three years of studying in Germany will be the most fulfilling six years of Auntie's life 😊
Alright, let's arrange it. So with a budget of 300,000 RMB to send dad to study abroad, how to choose?
Netizen's tip: First choice Germany, cheap and painful 👍
Studying in Germany, the latest cost is 16,000 over four years, extremely cost-effective.
A three-year immersive experience plus an extended graduation package, it might just take six to nine years, top choice for dutiful children.
For a one-year program, consider the Netherlands, known as the 'Hengshui of Europe'—it'll make your uncle a bald genius.
As everyone knows, Germany has a great academic atmosphere, uncle will surely achieve something.
Uncle learning well is more important than anything. You just lie flat beautifully, and there's a chance he might become a dragon.
After all, an IELTS 6.0, uncle's got some talent.
Parents preparing for IELTS also creatively apply it. One netizen said: Since my mom started learning IELTS, whenever I ask her for money, she calls me 'poor kid'❓
The Overachiever Type
But if you have super-parents, they won't weather the same storms you did; instead, you'll be brutally crushed.
Netizen: My dad learned along with me; he got it while I still didn't.
International student: Applying is so hard and painful.
Dad: Is it really that hard? Just watch your old man.
After the IELTS results: Dad's getting offers left and right.
International student: double kill.
The Self-Motivated Type
The parents of these international students are also hidden dragons and crouching tigers; one's a PhD in France, another's at Cambridge.
Some parents are self-motivated; without telling their kids, they applied for a Cambridge study tour program—truly a Chinese woman who strives for strength her entire life.
This mom chose to strive together with her child, independently pursuing further studies, chasing her own academic dreams, and hoping to better connect with her child.
Many people, after reading these inspiring stories, said they'd send their parents to study in the future.
Sending your retired mom to study abroad completes the educational circle at this moment.
The Underachiever Type
But some netizens advise caution: Think carefully, my mom's finals rely entirely on me finding answers. Who understands the luxury of studying two degrees?
Though over fifty, still skips classes and plays truant.
Perhaps only when parents study abroad will they realize that skipping class is just human nature.
No more tiger parenting; now they look at us with clear eyes and a gentle smile.
Study Abroad Experience Card: All About Mutual Understanding
Some say one of their most fulfilling achievements was sending their parents to study abroad.
It not only enriches their parents' later years, but also is a process of mutual understanding.
The popularity of the topic 'sending parents to study abroad' actually shows that study-abroad families have always had various struggles.
From daily communication across time zones to common discussions about filial piety and returning home, and the cost-effectiveness of studying abroad. With the trend of studying abroad at younger ages, various problems and conflicts are becoming more common.
Though recent TV dramas about study-abroad families are a bit over the top, they reflect the public's attention to this topic.
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Finally, we hope parents and children can understand each other, and that society can view study-abroad families rationally.
