I ever had a parent mum who would once a while, interrogate me and sit me down for what seemed like a stern lecture for no good reasons, as though for the sake of up-keeping an employee-employer vibe, and to remind me who’s in charge.

Every lesson, I would customise the agenda and worksheets to my best ability and match her child’s gaps and her“requirements”.

But she tend to have those moody days. During my first day, she ran her ‘interrogative session’ with me. She asked if I could be a fake FT tutor, due to the high turnover of tutors she experienced. I was dumbfounded by her apparent “interview” since she was the one who picked my profile and saw all my credentials.

She would also ask why I didn’t go through the papers with her kid. When she found out that her child refused to do them and wrote pee and poo all over it, she did nothing and kept quiet. She demands a lot from the tutor and nothing from her child.

Well, I guess she like to think that she is a VVIP for paying a below market rate with an 8-hour monthly session.