Healing in the countryside

When their 8-year-old daughter couldn't cope with school and city life, a desperate couple found the answer in a simpler life. Guo Yali follows their story.

Raise the Child in the Countryside is not the kind of parenting book that is written by "tiger moms" or "wolf dads", explaining their way of bringing up children to excel. It is by a mother whose daughter had problems fitting into society.

Author Feng Lili tells the story of how at first she and her husband thought there was nothing wrong with their daughter Tiantian, or themselves, and the problem was with school teachers. How they kept transferring their daughter to a new kindergarten-five in all-because each time the little girl felt too nervous to go. And how one month after she started primary school, they decided to keep her at home for good because she was simply too frightened by the rules-and finally didn't dare to sleep because she said, "when the day breaks, I'll have to go to school again".