Me: What do you want to be when you grow up, baby?
Angel: I don’t want to be anything!
Me: Well, you have to be something.
Angel: Do I have to? Like, is it compulsory?
Me: Yeah
Angel: What are you Mama?
Me: I am a computer engineer.
Angel: Then I will be the same, I will copy you!
Me: Okay
Angel: Will you still come with me to the university?
When Angel had just started her full-day daycare at the age of three and was not completely settled, she had asked me if I come to her class as a teacher. I had told her, I cant come to her school as a teacher, however when she goes to the university, maybe I can come with her as a student. She had retained that, since last three years. It reminded me how casually spoken lines can have such a huge impact on children’s minds and made me more aware of my responsibility as a parent!
Me: I have already studied that. Maybe if you study something else, I can join you.
Angel: Hmm, we will see! (That’s such a grown up response!)
And the topic drifted!
2 comments:
Ohh... My my!!
She should be a lawyer... She remembers all the small things anf uses it at the most appropriate time!
Bingo!
Haha.. Well she has forgotten a lot of things, maybe she was very vulnerable at that time and my words might have soothed her, that the only explanation that I can come up with.
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