Getting Up - 起床

Getting up in the morning is often hard for young people.  People who need to get up on time in order to go to school or work often find reliable means to wake them up.

In the US, independent people often use alarm clock to woke them up, while in China, young people often rely on their elders to wake them up.

Not only old people need to wake up their adult child(ren) who live with them, they are to wake up visiting nieces and nephews and their families.

As the manufacturer for the world, alarm clock can be easily bought in China and it won't cost much.  The dependence of the young people on their elders is rather unseemly.

Perhaps there are tiger-mothers and wolf-fathers in China, but they are, actually rare. 

年輕人早上起床往往很困難。需要準時起床上學或上班的人需要可靠的手段來喚醒他們。

在美國，獨立的人經常使用鬧鐘叫醒他們，而在中國，青年人往往依賴於他們的長輩來喚醒他們。

老人們不僅需要喚醒和他們住在一起的成年子女（们），他們还要喚醒來訪的侄儿侄女和他們的家庭。

鬧鐘可以很容易地在作為世界的製造商的中國購買到，而且也不會花很多錢。這種年輕人对他們的長輩依賴的是不體面的。

在中國有也許虎妈和狼爸，但它們實際上很少。

Grandma

© Matthew Felix Sun