One of the class boy's parents came to see me today. I was surprised as I was actually thinking of calling them. This boy A was crying before his Maths test during Assembly and I thought he had been in a fight and didnt ask anything. At the end of the day I asked him about what was the matter and he said it was a fight. Later on after further probing he said it was because his mum had told him - If you don't get 100 for your test don't call me mum" He was crying so hard that he made a few careless mistakes in his test. He got 90 marks. Till today he has not told his parents he got back the paper. Well anyway today I told them about his crying but not what he told me. The father turned around and scolded the mum for putting too much pressure on the boy. The boy's mother was defensive as well. She told me how she read her son's diary and he was quite playful all the time. Then she told me that A had told her to buy a diary with a lock and told her "Only Mrs VJ can read this , you cannot". I could see she was quite angry about that. After she calmed down I told her that at least he told her he wanted the money for the diary. He could have lied about it but he didn't. He probably was telling her that he didnt like her reading his diary. I told her that at this age, most kids want to be trusted to do things their own way. So I asked her to let him be for a week or two and see how his grades go. In that not to keep on bugging him.....If they improve good, if they dont then she can tell him they did try it his way first. And about what he writes in the diary - let him do it - it would help release his bottled up feeling. The parents agreed to try so lets see how that goes.