11/7/2022 0 Comments Whos your daddy achievement![]() ![]() He said he appreciated his parents more, now that he’s a parent, citing their sacrifices in raising him and his siblings who outnumber his children. He told me that during his interview he was asked, among others, what his biggest achievement was, to which he answered: “being a parent.” It was at this point that I recalled a recent conversation with a friend who landed a very plum job in a choice organization. Yes, I find parenting to be exhausting and plan-altering. The whole episode carried opportunities for emphasizing and learning the simple courtesies of “please” and “thank you.” For me, it came at the price of some self-exhaustion. Now, I don’t think I should be finding my self-worth, even as a parent, in my child’s positive behaviors, however, it felt so good to experience his transformation. This time as he walked away I smiled longer than the first time and sighed relief as a sense of fulfillment overtook me. Again, I called out to him to come and get it. I encouraged myself up, and snapped out of murmuring “when will this end?” To the kitchen, I went again and fixed him extra tortillas. Then I went back, reclined and continued watching my movie. I nodded, smiled and said, “that’s my boy!” I looked into his eyes, then at the plate and back into his eyes. I held on tightly to the plate and my face transformed from a relaxed into a stern expression. I was holding the plate, he came, grabbed the plate and tried to make a U-turn without an acknowledgment. Once Ofu’s tortilla was made, I called out to him to come and get it. Me: “Ok.” (I smiled □ and pondered where this is coming from and where it’s going – to be explored) Oche: “I just witnessed one but I won’t talk about it now, I’ll tell you later.” Me: “Ok, that’s neat! so what’s going on?” It’s basically someone who tells you to do one thing but goes off to do something else.” Me: “Oh ok, tell me more.” (Pretending to be ignorant, so he can drive the discussion.) Is it like pretending to be what you’re not?” “Dad, do you know the meaning of ‘hypocrism’?” I went to the kitchen and while I was fixing Ofu’s tortillas, Oche came to me and asked: Oh! How I wish that I’m just watching my movie, undisturbed, I thought. Just when it seemed everyone was nicely minding their own, Ofu called out: Then, I turned up the TV volume a little more to mask the sound of his activity on the computer. So I gave him some pain medicine, after which he got on the computer in the game room with me. The kids were upstairs playing and laughing, they sure found some innovative ways of having fun, just like we used to our days when there was no abundance of toys.Īs soon as I settled into watching, Ofu limped to me in the game room to complain of pain in his right foot (he sustained an injury 2 days ago for which he was seen in the ER). We had agreed that today will be no hand-held device day. So I was really looking forward to seeing it. It caught my attention last night after identifying a different movie to watch before bedtime. I had just settled down to watch “An Interview With God” on Netflix. Please stick with me and you’ll discover how I found it relevant to be used as the title of this post. ![]() Ok, it wasn’t I who said that originally. ![]()
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