OUR daughter is as young as 2 years and 4 months now. We would be in the wrong end if we ignore her thinking. As a working parent, we are living an ocean apart. We are trying to save while she is young. Our last target to return home is before she goes to school. Given current age, we roughly still got few years time to work for saving. However, recently happened two incidents made me and my wife need to review our plan urgently if we want to prevent our only child being stranger deeper.
As a result of open up in Myanmar, my family in home town able to use internet comfortably at home. In one year ago time, it is impossible to use internet at home. Now fortunately the reforms bring our people's lives a bit easier. My sister needs to do two major task to successfully use internet to see us online. Her main reason to use internet is to create a platform on which we can befriend to our daughter through virtual world. First thing is she has to ask IT friendly neice or student to help her connect us. Second she ensure there is some snack to lure our daughter to talk in case she refuses to talk us. My sister always wants to see us happy talking with our daughter. She would boast how our daughter is talkative and smart. Our daughter would sing some child poems and music if she is in fine mode. Otherwise, my sister needs to persuade our daughter with her favourite snacks. Witnessing this make us feel some shock that alarm us how our daughter will behave if we extend our separation time in future. Mathematically, our daughter is likely to have cooler relationship over time. This is first incident we have recently notice sadly.
The second incident is quite straight forward one but more alarming to our already worrisome minds. As our daughter continues to learn new words and languages every day, she has reportedly been a cute girl among relatives. As usual, the more talkative children are more likely to be loved by surroundings. As she lives in medical student hostel which is family business to make some earning, her surrounding is ever crowding adults rather than same age peers. Perhaps that circumstance make her learn mother tongue quickly. One day, she suddenly told her nanny aunt that she has a question to ask parent. My wondering sister replied, what kind of question do you want to ask, my little dear? Our less than 2.5 years old girl answered, "I want to know if they do love me or not." My sister was really amazing with the saying of little girl. Later she shares the wonderful experience when we give her a call. We are of course distraught to learn that. What had happened to our little daughter? At her age, she already started such thoughtful things. Anyway, we have no time to address her concern. We don't want her hurt for being left alone for certain reason. We have to accept that the worst yet to come. We must carefully handle with our little beloved daughter if we want to avoid disaster.
Oh my dear, we as your parent, perfectly love you so much. This won't be faded by time. Believe us that we leave you there alone is not because we hate you. We too suffering from being apart. We try to swallow those incoming suffer to create some wealth for you. At the end of the day, all we find today will belong to you since you are only one heiress we have ever been. Hopefully you'll fully understand parental love once you are grown up.
Wish you happy Christmas.
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