It is very easy to focus on problems and miss out on the good points of a child. I am still on the two children of previous blogs.
While the boy is a rather serious young person, the girl is full of smiles. I am probably an extremely low scorer on being touchy-feely, she still managed to wrangle quite a few hugs out of me every day.
Apparently last year during Christmas carolling the eight year old girl was physically chasing shy teenage boys for bear hugs. Apart from demanding hugs every fifteen minutes, she is a load of fun to be with. It was very easy to teach her to wipe dining table and wash her own cutlery and dishes. She is most enthusiastic about helping to prepare a meal.
As my son showed her a jar of homemade cookies given by a good friend, she agreed to a competition of cleaning glass shower door to earn a right to eat the goody. I showed her how to clean one side, she scrubbed and washed the other side. In the process, she came to appreciate how difficult it was for her home helper to earn the latter's wage. I suppose it is the case of a child from upper middle class family being cocooned by the parents' earning capacity.
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