Children

Since my younger days, I've been thinking about children. The kind of kids I want to have when I grow up. The number of kids I want to have. How'd they be brought up. And all that sort of things. People can tell me, you are still young, find a girlfriend first before thinking about such things. But I don't see what's wrong with planning how I want my future to be like. Just FYI, I don't really like kids. Or rather, I don't like naughty and noisy kids.

Last time, I wanted to be authoritative over my children. Like they need to be disciplined and all. But over the years, I realise that its not only one way to make your kids behave themselves. There are many ways and the more you control them, the more they will rebel. I still want them to be disicplined, but I guess I will use another approach rather than scold or beat them all the time.

Today, I encountered two instances whereby children came into the picture in just a mere one hour. The first one was when a mother was explaining to her two daughters about the many "why" questions her daughter asked. She was very patient in explaining things to her and the words that she say are a little bit too difficult for her daughter's age to understand. But I think its good because it makes her daughter grow up faster and more mature. She even taught moral education to her daughter by saying its selfish for people to put chairs infront of their landed property to "chop" the parking space. She also scolded her youngest daughter for being too noisy but she did it in such a loving manner. Worth learning from.

Another instance was when the children of the shop owner near my house was being naughty by running all about. The son didn't want to listen to the mother and went against her will. The daughter was rude to me when she said "excuse me" in a You-Owe-Me-Something tone. Turn off by seeing such things happen. Definitely do NOT want to bring up my kids to be in that manner.

Of course, both parents have to play a part in bringing up children. One of the parent has to be the angel, the other has to be the devil if they want to balance out the kids. This, I shall leave it to your future spouse and you to decide.

Happy Lunar New Year to one and all!