(Clearwisdom.net) Teacher told us as early as 1994 in "Explaining the Fa for Falun Dafa Assistants in Changchun": "Some children have extraordinary backgrounds--they have come to obtain the Fa." Teacher later also told us that each Falun Dafa practitioner is a king from their own kingdoms far in the distant universe. So are children practitioners, who had the godly courage to come to the human world, and who are great lives of the universe. It would be a real pity if they did not take this golden opportunity because of our neglect. What are our responsibilities as practitioners?

I would like to share my experience on how I worked with a young practitioner in my family.

My son obtained the Fa after the persecution began. Teacher healed my son's chronic bronchitis before he even finished reading lecture one in Zhuan Falun. After he passed two major karma eliminations, he was completely healthy. My husband or I, whoever had time, studied the Fa and did the exercises with him. When he studied the Fa, Teacher encouraged him. He saw through his celestial eye that Buddhas, Taos, and Gods were behind every character in the book.

One day, he saw a book in the school which had an article slandering Dafa. He thought right away: "These are all lies." At the moment he was standing on the ground, but he felt he was almost floating in the air. Teacher encouraged him to believe in Fa firmly.

In 2001 when my husband was illegally arrested, my son showed more courage than I did. The following year, after my husband had come home, he studied the Fa with our son every day. My son asked his father questions when he did not understand something. During this period, my son improved very fast. He soon reached the state of Unlocking Gong and showed various supernatural powers. For example, his soul could fly into space to eliminate evil beings when sending righteous thoughts. His body could travel between dimensions (when he finished sending righteous thoughts, he sometimes appeared in different rooms), and he also had the supernormal ability of clairvoyance. When distributing materials to clarify the truth, he thought: "Help the materials go into that person's bag or house", and the materials flew into the person's bag or house. He also wrote several articles which were published on the Minghui website. Dafa opened his wisdom, and his scores in school were the best. During elementary school, he was very pure and we basically did not worry about him at all.

After entering middle school, my husband was very busy and the task of taking care of my son was all mine. During the same period, my elderly parents also needed my care. I spent less time to study the Fa with him and was more lenient on him. I thought naively, the child is a Dafa practitioner and he wouldn't become bad. I thought that being a practitioner gives us "insurance". I forgot that ordinary society can pollute people, especially children, since they do not have a full ability to distinguish between right or wrong.

My son was alright during his first year in middle school. In the second year, his scores started dropping. Sometimes, he went to a internet club for fun without our knowledge. At that time, I did not look within myself, and I only tried to force him to study the Fa and do the exercises. When he did not obey me, I got angry and yelled at him. Just like Teacher said in Zhuan Falun: "Some people will lose their temper in disciplining children and yell at them, making quite a scene. You should not be that way in disciplining children, and neither should you, yourselves get really upset. You should educate children with reason so that you can really teach them well. " Whenever we studied this part, my son would say to me: "It's you." But at that time, I did not understand it.

During the summer of the second year, another practitioner and I studied the Fa with him once and I lost my temper again and yelled at him, because his sitting position was not good and he did not listen to me when I tried to correct him. After the practitioner left, I blamed him even more because his scores were dropping. I even kicked him out and he left the house. He did not return home until the next morning.

Not until this time did I start to look inside myself. Other practitioners learned about the incident and organized a sharing among parents, and then a sharing for young practitioners. Through the two meetings, I understood that the child is a mirror of the parents. Their shortcomings are exactly the same things we parents did not cultivate well.

Afterward, I let my son participate in group study during the summer. After studying the Fa, he joined in clarifying the truth and helped many of his classmates quit from the communist party associated organizations. Meanwhile, I paid attention to my own cultivation, tried to eliminate human sentimentality toward him, and tried to treat him as a fellow practitioner.

In his third year in middle school, he had a lot of homework. I continued to study the Fa with him whenever we had time. He worked hard and everything went well for the first semester. During the second semester, students worked very hard for the entry exams for high school. He was even busier. I was afraid he would not study enough Fa, so I was trying to remind him all the time. This put him under double pressure.

My son skipped the evening studies in the school for three months and every evening stayed in internet clubs or was goofing around on the streets. I did not find out about this until a week before the exams, when I bumped into his teacher.

I went home and questioned him angrily. He knew that what he did it was wrong and he was scared and thus hid from me.

The next morning when I was going to work, I felt really painful when thinking that my son was playing computer games every evening for three months. At this moment, a sentence entered my mind: "All of these were put upon you by evil beings." Right, this was a reminder. I should not acknowledge it and think it's all my son's fault. My son is a Falun Dafa practitioner. His attachments will be eliminated according to the Fa. I can not let evil beings destroy him by using his attachments.

I suddenly saw the light. I looked inside and tried to see what loophole I had, which gave the evil this opportunity. I realized recently I was always complaining about a practitioner.

In the evening, I did not blame my son, but shared my thoughts with him from the Fa and suggested to him to deny all of this. To use this last week to improve himself according to the Fa, send more righteous thoughts to clean out his space, and show the power of Dafa.

During this week before the exam, he went to school during the day, and in the evening we studied the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts. When he received the results of the exam, he barely passed. He cried because he had expected to get a higher score.

I chatted with him again and told him that this was the result of denying the old force's arrangement. The evil might have arranged for you to fail for even ordinary high school. Then others would laugh at you, and say your parents did not care about their child after they practiced Falun Gong. It would have caused more people to misunderstand Dafa. The reason that you did not get very high scores as you wished, was because you needed to bear the consequence of your own wrong doing. You did not pay attention to cultivation, you got hooked on internet clubs, you lied to your parents and your teacher. That is why Teacher closed your celestial eye and sealed your supernatural powers.

He also told me that at his age, children usually are more rebellious. The more I told him what to do, the more he disliked it. I think he's right. I always tried to force him to study the Fa. But cultivation can not be forced on somebody. I had a strong human sentimentality toward him and did not treat him as a practitioner. I said to him: "From now on if you see anything I did not do well, please point it out to me. Let's improve together according to the Fa."

During two years of his high school, in addition to taking him to group Fa study, I also paid attention to self-cultivation. Sometimes, he was lazy and did not want to get up in the morning to do the exercises, I would send out the power of compassion to dissolve his laziness. Then he would get up right away when I called him. This is truly "The Buddha-light illuminates everywhere and rectifies all abnormalities." (Zhuan Falun)

During those two years, my son's scores remained at the very top. When my students asked me: "Why is your son so good in study? Do you have any tricks?" I told them that my son practices Falun Dafa.

I also often reminded him to save sentient beings. The student, who sat next to him in class read truth clarifying materials and watched CDs of " Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" given to him by my son. He not only quit the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers, but also started to read Dafa books. My son and my husband together clarified the truth to the class. All of his classmates understood the truth and withdrew from the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers.

In April, we organized a sharing meeting among parents. Parents talked about the cultivation processes of their children. The common problems among young practitioners were that they were not very diligent, were lazy, and some even behaved like ordinary people. We read related articles on Minghui on helping young practitioners practice cultivation. Parents understood that it was their own loophole because their children did not cultivate well. They felt they had not taken full responsibility for teaching young practitioners and a sharing meeting would be necessary for young practitioners.

We began to act. Some of us went to each young practitioner's home and asked them to write sharing articles. Some went to look for a meeting place. And some notified other practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts. With the cooperation of the practitioners, a experience sharing conference for local young practitioners took place successfully in early May.

During the conference, students from elementary schools to colleges and other young practitioners shared their experiences on doing the three things. Adult practitioners were so touched by young practitioners' purity and compassion that some even cried. Some young practitioners did not want to come initially and were trying to hide from others, but eventually they took part in it actively.

The response to the conference was really good. Parents felt it was very successful. Young practitioners were very touched and all knew their purpose and tasks. After the conference, some young practitioners who did not study the Fa and do the exercises began to cultivate diligently. Some joined group Fa study and distributed truth clarification materials. Some improved their scores in the school since they started to study the Fa and do the exercises.

Of course, only one sharing conference won't solve all the problems. As parents, we should understand that bringing up young practitioners is part of our cultivation. I hope when parents do the three things, they do not forget our young practitioners, take responsibility, and not let Teacher down.

August 4, 2009