(Ecns.cn)--Pictures from a comic book that teaches preteens how to thwart their annoying mothers quickly went viral after being posted Monday on China's Twitter-like Weibo.com, according to the Yangtze Evening Post on Thursday.
The authors of the book are two 10-year-old girls who live in Beijing. One of the girls named Dang Dang showed the pictures to her father, who decided to post some of them on the Internet to share with other parents.
"The pictures drawn by the kids are very interesting and reflect real scenes in many families, so I decided to post them on my Weibo to share with other parents," said Dang Dang's father.
By sharing, he hopes that parents will learn more about their children and give them more freedom and trust. "Both her mother and I provide Dang Dang with a comparatively free environment, although she is sometimes willful and quarrels with her mother," he said.
After seeing the pictures, Dang Dang's mother was worried that people would think she was a bad mother. "I should say that I sometimes give her advice, but I am not a terrible mother who often picks on her," she said. As a history teacher, she values a proper method of teaching her child, but because her husband is often easy on Dang Dang, she has to play the bad guy sometimes, she added.
"I remember that one time she failed a test and I criticized her by comparing her scores with other students. This made her angry, so she started to draw pictures with her friends," said the mother.
In the comic, tips include, "You can pretend to cry when your mother scolds you, and this can be used often; and you can try to not hear your mother when she yells at you, but this cannot be used too often."
Dang is already working on another comic book to illustrate what she thinks "love" is. After the encouragement from her father, she has also registered on Weibo.com to directly communicate with her fans.
"The comic book is a rare thing, but the phenomenon behind it is not," said Yu Qinfang, a psychologist in Shanghai. "The pictures show that children need more leniency, and that mothers are often too garrulous."
According to a survey conducted by Yu at a Shanghai primary school, about 51.9 percent of the children do not like their mothers' urges and negative chatter. "Mothers need to be more patient and give more encouragement to their children," said Yu.
