‘Please let my Dad go on holiday’, Chinese boy pleads with boss

An eight-year-old boy has touched the hearts of internet users in China after he wrote a note to his father’s boss pleading for him to get time off so they could spend a few days on holiday before the summer ends.

The boy’s father works in IT in Beijing, but had no time to take him on holiday due to pressure of work, the Red Star News website reported.

“The summer vacation has come. [My friend] Xiaoming is now on holiday with his parents and I want to go on vacation, too,” the boy wrote in his pencilled note.

“But Dad always says he’s busy at work. Can you give my father a few days leave?” he was quoted as saying. “Xiaoming says people who don’t use the summer holidays to travel are dumb.”

The father, whose full name was not given, said his son handed him the note before he left home for work on Tuesday morning.

“He asked me to read it when I was in the office,” the father said.