If I eat too much jam,

Mother,

look how younger I am,

Father dear,

Please recall that at one time you were small.

If I’m hard on my clothes,

And I do not wipe my nose,

Parents dear,

Tiddleeeum,

We’re the younger generation,

And the future of the nation.

 

If I look as I pass,

Into every looking glass,

Parents mine,

Have no fears.

Just go back some twenty years.

If to school I am late,

Please don’t scold and agitate,

Isn’t true,

One time you were that way too?

If I make too much noise,

And I hit back at the boys,

Parents dear,

Isn’t it true

On time you were that way too?

 

Parents dear,

use your tact,

If you don’t like how we act,

Do not fret,

Do not mourn,

Is it fault we were born?

Please forgive all we do,

Some day we will suffer too,

When it turn,

We shall groan,

At some children of our own.

 

要是我吃太多果醬，

媽媽，

看我多年輕，

親愛的爸爸，

請你記得你也年輕過。

於是我太注重儀表，

要是我不刷鼻水，

親愛的父母，

讓我來做過鬼臉，

我們是新一代，

國家社稷的將來。

 

要是每次經過鏡子，

我也要找自己的身影，

父母哦，

不要擔心，

二十多年前你也一樣呢。

要是我上課遲到，

請你不要激動責罵，

不是嗎？

你年輕時也跟我一樣啊。

要是我大吵大鬧，

要是我對男生粗魯，

親愛的父母，

不是嗎？

你年輕時也跟我一樣啊。

 

親愛的父母，

老練點吧，

要是你對我們的行為有意見，

不要眉頭深鎖，

不要怨天尤人，

生我們出來有錯嗎？

請你原諒我們吧，

改天就到我們了，

等到報應來的一天，

就是我們天天抱怨的日子，

因為我們有自己小孩了。