My name’s Mathew. I go to Slighton Middle School. I live in Blackpool in England with my mom. My mom’s name is Sarah. She’s 39 years old and she’s a teacher in Blackpool High School. She teaches music. She likes her job. The students love my mom because she is very good to them.

On Saturdays and Sundays, my mother comes to my games (I play soccer). After the games, she buys me and my friends some ice-cream, or takes us to the cinema. She likes my friends and my friends like her.

In her free time, she meets her friends. Her friend Della is my English teacher. They go to play sports. They often play tennis and ping-pong. My mom goes to dance classes, too. She learns salsa and does it very well. She loves reading, and she has lots of books.

This is my mom and I think she’s the greatest (最伟大的) woman in the world.

According to a recent survey, about 52% of WeChat users aged 18 to 29 block (屏蔽) their parents on WeChat Moments, also known as “Friends’ Circle”. My parents don’t know Moments very well, and I have told them I don’t use it any more. I just need some private space.

—Lu Zhiping, 21 years old

I don’t block my parents completely. They are in a certain group in which I only share positive posts. I just don’t want my parents to worry about me. Last year my parents saw a Moments picture of my hand getting burned while cooking. It was nothing serious but they traveled all the way to Nanjing to make sure I was all right.

—Xie Yun, 26 years old

The survey also found that more than 49% of Chinese parents use WeChat as a main way to communicate with their children.

When asked what they would do about being blocked, some parents said they would have a talk with their children to find out the reason, while others said they wouldn’t care.

And some parents are smarter than their kids. “I didn’t realize I was blocked until I compared what I could see on my phone with what my son’s aunt could see,” said Chen, a mother of a 27-year-old son. “Now I’m following my son’s posts through his aunt.”