Being a mom, you always have to answer questions (the younger they are, the more difficult questions you have got to explain). Every mom has experienced more or less questions like "how I come to this world?", "why everybody must die one day?", "am I going to die too?", and "will I have a baby if I fall in love?".
The last example is one of my daughter's questions that I use all my communications tactics to answer. But well, the answer has to carry some truths, if not the whole truth. Kids just have photo-copying memory and you wouldn't want your kid to grow up and learn weird things (So I won't make my gal believe she will get pregnant when she falls for a guy).
Tonight I talked to her before bedtime and it was our Q&A time again.
She asked a question that may make everyone laughs his head off - why didn't I become a model?.
"I think you can. Even though your boobs aren't that big, you can be a model. I notice many models have 'flat" breasts."She continued: "but well, now you're too old for that, huh? What a pity you don't do it when you were young. You've got everything- the look, shape, and good education."
Ummm...Thanks goodness, she told that to me without any third person otherwise I didn't know where to put my face. As much as you think your kid is good looking, she/he always sees you beautiful.
Then followed immediately after the compliment: "Mommy...why do you always have to watch football matches?""I don't watch all of them just my team," I said."But why do you have to watch your team every time they play?" she asked."Because it is my team and I want to see players I like."I thought that was the end of the Q&A session.Not yet..."Mommy...why do you have to call friends and talk footies? I started to feel suspicious."Huh? It was the time of mommy's strike-back."Well, it's pretty much the same as you always pick up the phone and call friends about the online games you are playing. But see, my dear, I've never asked why you have to phone them about games. So I guess you should not ask me either."
I'm sure I'm not the only mom on earth to have to end our Q&A session this way.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
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