Vicarious

Today  I learned a phrase "live vicariously through someone." It often means that parents want their children to make their dream come true. This phrase reminds me that my parents are not well-educated so I was forced to study at least 12 hours a day by my father during my junior high school days. When I was a junior high school student, I got 88 out of 100 points in my first math test. After leaning the result, he slapped me in my face as two of my classmates got a perfect score, but I didn't. He was crazily hard on me, but he never reflected on himself because he was lazy in working and liked gambling. When he was died at 49, there was no savings and properties under his name.