Hong Kong actor Ho Ying Wai has recalled the distressing ordeal of his teenage son running away from home after becoming unhappy with the strict rules imposed on him.<\/p>\n
In a recent web programme, the 61-year-old revealed that his 14-year-old son was going through a rebellious phase at the time and had been unhappy with the restrictions at home.<\/p>\n
These included limits on his gaming time, having his pocket money withheld and his father\u2019s concerns about his early romantic relationship.<\/p>\n
The situation escalated when the teenager took thousands of dollars in cash, sneaked out of the family home at around 4am and travelled alone to Guangzhou, China.<\/p>\n
Ho realised his son was missing when he woke up at 7am, and quickly alerted the police.<\/p>\n
He later received a call from the parent of his son\u2019s classmates, who informed him that the teenager had borrowed their phone to make contact.<\/p>\n
The Detective Investigation Files II (1995) star pleaded with his son to return home, but the teenager refused, opting instead to stay temporarily with his classmate\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
The boy later presented him with 12 conditions before agreeing to return home, including demands for the latest iPhone, the return of his savings and greater privacy.<\/p>\n
However, Ho refused to give in to the demands.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur family isn\u2019t a triad. You can\u2019t make demands like this. I will always be your father. If you want to discuss things, you can come to me anytime, but you can\u2019t make demands like this,\u201d he recalled telling his son.<\/p>\n
Ho eventually agreed to return his son\u2019s savings, but stressed that he would not provide additional money if the teenager spent it.<\/p>\n
As for the new phone, Ho reached a compromise with his son. He agreed that they would split the cost the following April, provided the teenager could save enough money himself.<\/p>\n
Although the boy was initially reluctant to return home, he eventually changed his mind after his classmate encouraged him to appreciate his father\u2019s willingness to compromise.<\/p>\n
Looking back, Ho admitted that the incident left him deeply distressed and torn between disciplining his son and preserving their relationship.<\/p>\n
He also revealed that he had considered using physical punishment several times, but ultimately decided that reasoning with his son was the better approach. THE STAR\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong actor Ho Ying Wai has recalled the distressing ordeal of his teenage son running away from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-601311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}