Because every now and then, we need to hear someone say those three "little" words, to know??? Is that, it??? On parent-child relations, translated…
The very first time my eldest daughter went on an overnight campout, without her around us, it was, a bit, weird. On the final night of her trip she'd called, "will you come to pick me up tomorrow?", "Of course we will!"
And, as she'd gotten our responses, she got ready to hang up, I'd added, "I miss you so very much, did you miss me too?", and, there was the laughter from the adolescents in the room from behind her, from her, roommates. "What? Not so much.", my daughter had always been quite rational, and the response, it'd, fitted her. I'd not given up on it though, continued pressing her, "but I really, missed you, a whole, lot, did you miss me too?", the group of adolescents are now, bursting in laughter.
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"hey, quiet down you guys, I can't hear my mom!", my daughter halted the laughter of her roommates, and with some hesitation, told me, "yeah, I guess so!", I was more than satisfied hearing her, hung up the phone.
On my way to picking my daughter up, I'd started discussing this with my husband, I'd told him, in high volume, that the next time an opportunity like this one comes, I shall, bravely declare my love to my, daughter again, to make all her friends, envious. My husband held the objecting, views, "you will make her the laughing stock, adolescents don't like that!", really? As I'd picked my daughter up, I'd, asked her about it, she'd only, shrugged then said, "Actually, I have NO idea what they were, laughing so hard about."
The minds of adolescents, really aren't, easy to, understand (including my own daughter's), but, I will NEVER, give up on sweet talking her (at most, I will, only learn, to stop when I needed to).
Because we should all, declare our love to those we love!
So, thankful, that this daughter wasn't, too sensitive, or cared too much about what her peers are expressing, how they'd, reacted, responded to her mother's asking her to say "I love you", and, the teenage years are, supposed to be, awkward for a lot of us, because, we're at that age, of, getting older, no longer, interacting with our parents in that, lovey-dovey manner like we once had as younger children, and the parents need to get USED to that, and try not embarrass yourselves, adults or your own, teenagers, huh???
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