Home
» City specials
» Hangzhou
Dad teaches daughter life lessons on trips
Print Edition
WHILE some Chinese kids are considered spoiled in part because they are the only child, a Hangzhou father is teaching his daughter to be independent.
Bu Ensa has traveled around the world with her and written about their adventures. “Asking for Troubles” will be published next month and is a collection of photos and travelogue. Bu is a professional photographer and the golden award winner of Trierenberg Super Circuit, one of the world’s largest international photography contests.
The 41-year-old has taken his daughter Bu Fan traveling since she was only three. They’ve left footprints all over China, and in Japan, Singapore, India, Nepal, Thailand, Iran, Egypt, Spain, Turkey, Iran, and Maldives.
Bu keeps posting photos of their travels online and has thousands of followers. All the posts have been clicked more than 1 million times.
He says the book is called “Asking for Troubles” because “problems keep bumping up during trips” and because “touring with a kid isn’t easy.”
Their recent tour to Iran, for instance, was “full of problems.” First, the temperature dropped from 20 degrees Celsius to 0 and as they were walking in T-shirts in the snow, they couldn’t find an open restaurant or store that afternoon.
They saw some locals warming themselves by a fire on a street corner, so Bu encouraged his daughter to go over and meet them. They waited by the fire until a restaurant opened.
“Travel is like life, it doesn’t always go so smoothly, but to cheer yourself up is a necessary life skill,” he says.
Similar stories include Bu “forcing” his daughter to go shopping in a stingy fish market, sleeping overnight in an airport, and paying for goods at foreign supermarkets when she was five.
“Children are very flexible, but sometimes they need a little push that makes them dare to try,” he says.
Bu also believe parents should give their kids respect. Two months ago they went to Egypt and the girl’s favorite hobby was playing in the sand, but he never stopped her to do other so-called “better” things.
When asked whether he is worried his daughter will one day have another man in her life, Bu answered: “I am helping her learn about the world so she can have the ability to understand people and life. She will know how to make herself happy regardless of whether she is alone or with someone in the future.”
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
