This morning, I was by chance in the same bus with a Korean couple together with their little daughter (around 3 years old). When the bus reached a destination, the child just stood in my way and managed clumsily to fasten a backpack strap across her chest. I was drawn by her act and so curious as to how she would deal with it. After several attempts, she finally made it, without her parents’ help. I gave her a grin with the intention of congratulating her. And her mother smiled at me and said “thank you” for, I think, my patience. I think I should have thanked her back on account of that beautiful moment among hurried streams of life we glide nowadays.
I’ve always been in favor of radical parenting methods for children's sake, such as the Montessori method, or some kind of child-directed method. However, I’ve rarely seen a child-directed situation in a social occasion like the scene mentioned above, because parents are usually impatient with their children’s act, thereby they tend to interrupt their children’s process of self-discovery. That’s so awful!
The couple really let their child on her own, even when they got off the bus, they just let her walk in her own way, and the father only had a duty to walk behind. What a parenting!
The kid is cute, and my day somehow is so fulfilled.
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