小天使
孩子是父母眼中的天使。
by 冰溪
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Big Boy or Baby
Saturday morning, while we were cleaning the house, daddy asked Olivia to help clean Evan’s bedroom.
Olivia asked: “Why? Why Evan can’t clean his own bedroom?”
Evanhas been very good at cleaning after him at daycare, the teacher hasmentioned that to me many times. But at home, he is indeed a mess makeras he proudly announced to us numerous times.
Since we weretrying to get out of the door for a play date Olivia and her friend hadset up and it would probably take Evan forever to clean his room(actually Evan's never successfully cleaned his own room before), daddysaid to Olivia: “Cleaning Evan’s room is helping others. Remember youneed to work to buy the High School Musical DVD? Here is your chance.”
“O-kay.” Olivia replied reluctantly.
“And Evan doesn’t get any money.” Daddy added.
Atthis time, Evan, who was listening to the conversation between daddyand Olivia and has been recently claiming to me how a big boy he is now(when he told me this he would pull his shoulders back and stick hisbig tummy out), said to daddy: “Daddy, I do not need any money (meaningI do not have to clean my room). I am just a baby.”
“Oh, yeah? I thought you told me that you are a big boy now?” I said.
“No! I am just a baby and babies don’t need money.” He emphasized.
Trying to Concentrate
For Olivia, the most nervous time during a Chinese class is when her teacher hands out a couple of 生字卡(flash cards) to each child at the beginning of the class and asks themto go to the front of the classroom and read the words on the flashcards to the entire class. She does not like to get them wrong in front of everyone.
This past Sunday, right after we sat down in the classroom, the teacher handed her three flash cards, they were 东西 (thing), 娃娃 (baby) and 看 (look). She got them all with a little help except for the word 东西 which she just kept on forgetting.
You could tell that she was trying very hard to remember all the words, especially 东西. But most of time when she picked up that card, she would get stuck and ask me: “Mommy, what is this again?”
“东西. Remember that I call you and Evan 小东西?” I answered.
“Oh, yeah! 东西.” She repeated.
Verysoon the class started and the teacher started to ask the children togo up to the front to read their flash cards starting from the frontrow. Olivia sat at the back. It would be a little while before her turn.
Inoticed that at this time, she was very concentrated and totallyoblivious of what was going on in the class. Everything was about thosethree cards in her hands. She muttered to herself: “东西, 娃娃, 看, 东西, 娃娃, 看, 东西, 娃娃, 看…”
Iwanted her to pay attention to what the class was doing, so I said toher: “Olivia, take a look at Christopher’s flash cards (he was standingin the front), do you know the words on them?”
Beinginterrupted and still not one hundred percent confident, Olivia was alittle anxious: “Mommy, don’t talk to me! I am trying to concentratehere, 娃娃, 看...eh...eh, see, I forgot this word again!”
Olivia的确是个非常要强的女孩.如果不能做到最好就会沮丧.这点有点儿让我担心.我倒希望她能relax more.这样她就会少些烦恼多些快乐:)
Evan似乎就不是很care. 也许真象我读到的一篇文章中说的,老大都偏向于perfectionist而老二则more laid-back.
娃娃又看东来又看西，难怪会糊涂呢，一次只能看一样，看东东，或者看西西。
小孩子的认真劲儿，可爱。