My daughter went out alone
At six o'clock in the morning, my daughter opened the door and walked out. I asked her why she didn't sleep a little longer. She said she couldn't sleep anymore and wanted to go to Shapingba Bookstore to read with her classmates. She would go out at seven o'clock.
This is my daughter who is in junior high school. She does not go to school on the first day after finishing the final exam. I think she will sleep a little longer in the morning no matter what. After all, when she goes to school, she is always reluctant to get up in the morning and feels like she never gets enough sleep. Unexpectedly, she would get up earlier during the holiday.
I am worried that when they enter the bookstore, they will be asked to check the health code. She does not have a mobile phone, which will affect her entry and exit. I asked her if she wanted me to send her there first and then come back. After hearing this, she immediately waved her hands and said, "No need! Just send the screenshot of the health code to my phone watch later."
I picked up the phone to check the health code and sent the screenshot to my daughter's phone watch. Seeing her making various preparations before going out, I didn't know what to say.
As soon as seven o'clock arrived, my daughter was carrying her bag and getting ready to go out. I told her to pay attention to everything as before. When I heard the elevator door opening, I stood at the door again and asked her if she had enough money. I only heard her reply in the elevator: That's enough, there are all the parts. The elevator door closed.
I immediately ran to the balcony and saw her little figure walking out of the building and slowly walking towards the entrance of the community. At that moment, a sense of reluctance suddenly arose in my heart. In the past, no matter where she went, I would accompany her. Now, I still want to go with her, but I know she would rather go alone or with classmates and friends.
Seeing that my daughter was about to leave my sight, I quickly picked up my phone and took a photo of her back. I imagined that before she walked out of the community, she would look back at me on the balcony, but no. She didn't look back, and she didn't even slow down.
Looking back, I can be considered a very lucky father. Since 2012, when my daughter entered kindergarten, I have been with her and accompanied her, and we have basically never been apart.
For ten years, I have always had a good relationship with my daughter. Because I rarely pay attention to her academic performance, there are very few conflicts. Our time together was mostly spent chatting and bragging, playing chess and reading books. Because of this, I rarely feel anxious about my daughter's growth and learning. More often than not, my daughter brings me happiness and even enjoyment.
A letter written by my daughter to me
When I went to school for a parent-teacher meeting this semester, the teacher asked every child to write a letter to their parents and leave it on the desk in the classroom. My daughter told me the day before the parent-teacher conference that she wrote me very few letters, only a few sentences, asking me not to blame her. She felt that we had communicated enough with each other on a daily basis and there was nothing more that needed to be written in letters.
I understand children very well. When the teacher asked parents to write a reply to their children after reading the letter written by their children, I only replied with two words to my daughter: OK.
Of course, there are gains and losses.
Over the past ten years, I have made very little personal progress at work, and my personal income is not as good as it was ten years ago. As a result, the current work has reached the point where it is difficult to move forward. Even so, I still feel that I am lucky to have been able to choose to accompany my children for so many years, and it is also the right choice for me.
saw that my current work situation was not satisfactory. Colleagues and friends from more than ten years ago even suggested that I go to work in Shenzhen again. After all, there are more opportunities there.
Friends believe that since the children are already in junior high school, it doesn’t matter if the parents are not around. They also think that for people like us who have just entered middle age, making money is more important than spending time with our children. Maybe that is indeed the case, but I still wouldn't choose that. After all, I have been with my children for ten years, and I will not give up the next few critical years.
Let’s calculate how much time I will have in the future to really spend time with my children. Think about it, it can be said that there are only a handful of them.My daughter still has two years of junior high school and three years of high school. Most of the five years, she has left home after six in the morning and arrived home after nine-thirty in the evening. In addition to seeing the child every day, the time spent chatting with her will not exceed an hour.
When the children go to college, there will be very little time for talking and chatting throughout the year, let alone seeing each other.
So, I don’t think that the time with the children will be a lot, it will be a long time. In fact, once you walk through it and look back, you will find that in the blink of an eye, your child has grown up.
My daughter’s homemade ice pink sugar water
After writing this article, I remembered the ice powder and brown sugar water that my daughter made yesterday. I opened the refrigerator, scooped out a bowl of ice powder, poured some brown sugar water on it, and began to enjoy the fruits of my daughter's labor alone. Although the brown sugar water is a bit bland, it is still sweet in your heart when you eat it.
