Took mrt today… Heard a toddler not older than 3 years crying, whining and saying some words. It was quite muddled but caused enough curiousity in me to perk my ears up to listen out carefully. The mum was carrying him and didn’t say a word.
On my way up the escalator, I finally “decoded” those muddled words – “你给我出去!” And the baby boy continued chanting those words and cried non-stop. After saying about 50 times (not that I counted, but you get what I mean…), finally he popped out “我不要你!” Then went back to his rhetorical chant of “I want you to get out” and occasionally cried “I don’t want you.” I could still hear his voice fading away as I enter the train cabin.
Who taught the boy these words of rejection?!! What has happened so bad that he’s rejecting his mom?
I felt embarrassed for the mom and suddenly thought of Jordan. I pray that I will be a good mother and make him feel loved and not rejected. I will not want my child to say those words to me ever…
