Childhood memory 2

I think it was during my preschool and early elementary school years that I pulled out my own hair, mainly due to stress from my mother, resulting in two or three small, circular bald spots.
Even as I grew older, the hair in those areas remained thin, and during puberty, I regretted pulling out my hair.
However, I remember having friends and playing various games throughout my time in preschool and elementary school.
My mother quit her full-time job after getting married, and although she worked part-time occasionally, she later became a full-time housewife.
My father was a high school graduate and a salaried worker who worked for a large company until retirement.
My mother was overbearing and a “tiger mom,” and after I started elementary school, she forced me to take piano lessons. My piano teacher was an elderly woman who gave very strict lessons, and I didn’t enjoy the lessons.
I rarely experienced the joy of playing music with fun pieces; it was mostly practice of etudes like Beyer and Hanon. Practicing the piano was unpleasant, but my mother forced me to do it. It was a daily routine of about 30 minutes starting at 5 PM, and I would be scolded if I wasn’t home by then.
I continued these piano lessons and practice sessions for about nine years, until the end of middle school.
Besides piano lessons, from the upper grades of elementary school, my parents sent me to a cram school.
Thanks to my studies at the cram school, I did well in elementary school and was allowed to take the entrance exam for a prestigious private middle school, but I failed.
At that time, I felt that going to a public middle school with my elementary school friends would be better than going to a private school, so the failure wasn’t a shock to me.