I'm trembling because my elementary school son is getting smarter and smarter

I'm a middle-aged man with big ambitions! (👉Self-introduction)

Last time, using my son's middle school entrance exam as an example, I talked about how individual performance is multiplied by individual ability, motivation, and energy, combined with the surrounding environment.

This time, I'll talk about what happened when I gave him history manga and such as a gift for his environment.

With that said, my second son has recently been obsessed with reading history manga books.

He's 9 years old now and has already read the 15-volume Japanese history manga series many times over.
He's getting smarter and smarter, and I couldn't stop trembling while talking to him, so I'm recording it.

One day, just out of curiosity, I asked him, "Can you name all 15 Tokugawa shoguns?" and I was surprised when he recited them from Ieyasu to Yoshinobu from memory while recalling the manga.Even their childhood names.
I had once memorized them desperately for a test, but this son of mine,is an elementary school student who hasn't even learned Japanese history yet and has no tests, yet he remembers all 15 Tokugawa shoguns just from reading.

I trembled.

And recently, he's started on a series of manga books about great people, reading them at a pace of about one per day.
He's read the warlord series including Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga, Date Masamune, and Takeda Shingen, and recently he's been reading about Nobel, Mother Teresa, Beethoven, and so on.
It seems song titles like "Fate" and "Eroica" appear in the Beethoven book, andhe was reading the manga while listening to Beethoven by requesting it himself on Alexa.

I trembled.

Tonight, I had this exchange with my son.

Son: "Hey Dad, did you know that 2020 was the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth?"
Me: "Is that so! It's amazing that his music is still being listened to and remembered by everyone after 250 years. I wonder if anyone will remember me 250 years after I die."
Son: "Eh, Dad, you haven't done anything significant at that age, so isn't that impossible?" *snicker*

I trembled.

Me: "...How old did Beethoven live to be again?"
Son: "56, I think."
Me: "That means I still have nearly 20 years until then, so maybe I can still make it."
Son: "Beethoven had his talent recognized around age 20, and he had composed many songs by age 30. So, isn't it already too late for you?"

I trembled.

I'm in my late 30s, but I want to become a big deal from now on.
Also, I decided once again to fully support my son's interests and let him have as many experiences as possible. If I do that, there might be a chance that I'll appear in one panel of my son's biography as the father of a great man, and there might be a path for someone to remember me 250 years later.

※ If you are thinking about middle school entrance exams, I recommend the "Manga Japanese History" series so much that it'll make you tremble, because reading it early will pay off later!

To be continued