Have you ever taught your kid to cry? Right from the very moment of their life in this world they cry. Perhaps one of the things you try to unlearn throughout your life and never really succeed. So natural. Isn't?
The tone, the style, the need, I bet kids (age below 4) are the masters of crying.
It means so much to them. They cry if they are hungry. They cry if they are sleepy. They cry if they are scared. They cry if they want someone to take them. They cry if they are tired. They cry if they want to ... It is their language. I think the best of mothers and fathers are the one who can understand/predict and prepared for it.
Sometimes they keep crying. You know there is something wrong but you can't get it. They know no language other than filling their eyes with tear. You have no remedy but to hold them tight and make them feel that you love and care them through your every breath. I would say that is an extremely painful moment for a mother.
You wanted to go somewhere for a very short time so urgently and you can't take your kid with you and if your kid think otherwise, if they want to come with you, well, you are in trouble. Generally you start gently. They listen to you for a minute and start crying. You pickup few more points and tell them patiently. They listen, shorter than a minute, and resume crying as if you made no valid points. You try to explain more clearly and add a promise that you will get something 'attractive' for them. On an unlucky day, it goes on. At one point, you have to leave your kid crying as you don't have any other choice. I don't think anything else can annoy you more than this.
Probably we never lose this basic instinct. We still cry, may be, the form has changed. "Keep a smile on your lips even when you heart cries" - is one of them. Though crying looks very negative, on most occasions, it has a potential to bring forth an enormous power that you could use either constructively or destructively.
The tone, the style, the need, I bet kids (age below 4) are the masters of crying.
It means so much to them. They cry if they are hungry. They cry if they are sleepy. They cry if they are scared. They cry if they want someone to take them. They cry if they are tired. They cry if they want to ... It is their language. I think the best of mothers and fathers are the one who can understand/predict and prepared for it.
Sometimes they keep crying. You know there is something wrong but you can't get it. They know no language other than filling their eyes with tear. You have no remedy but to hold them tight and make them feel that you love and care them through your every breath. I would say that is an extremely painful moment for a mother.
You wanted to go somewhere for a very short time so urgently and you can't take your kid with you and if your kid think otherwise, if they want to come with you, well, you are in trouble. Generally you start gently. They listen to you for a minute and start crying. You pickup few more points and tell them patiently. They listen, shorter than a minute, and resume crying as if you made no valid points. You try to explain more clearly and add a promise that you will get something 'attractive' for them. On an unlucky day, it goes on. At one point, you have to leave your kid crying as you don't have any other choice. I don't think anything else can annoy you more than this.
Probably we never lose this basic instinct. We still cry, may be, the form has changed. "Keep a smile on your lips even when you heart cries" - is one of them. Though crying looks very negative, on most occasions, it has a potential to bring forth an enormous power that you could use either constructively or destructively.
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