August 30th, 2004
The dangerous father
» motherhood
How dangerous can a father be? At home, he will play games like throwing the baby into the air and catching her. After getting tired of playing with her, he left her sitting unattended on the floor alone. In the restaurant, he fed her wasabi, and attempted to pick up some food that dropped onto the table and, what else, feed her! While on stroller ride, he didn’t bother to harness her properly, because it is just a 5 min ride down stair to the car park. When pushing the stroller down slope, he would push it at maximum speed, or let go the stroller and run after it.
Are mothers overprotective? He is always quoting “what doesn’t kill the baby will make her stronger”, while I goes “she can’t get stronger when she got killed”. Occaional showing of black faces or baby safty nagging sessions seems to instill a stronger sense of catious nowadays. Mothers have that special instinct that enable us to pick up signals when danger is nearing our precious little ones. Fathers, please handle with care, small fragile babies!
August 30th, 2004 at 7:11 pm
I guess mothers are overprotective but definitely for the good of their children! I can identify with the letting go of the stroller down the slope and then running after it because that was what Chris did before. Sure freaked me out!
Btw, not good to shake the baby even when in play because their skulls are still so delicate and parts of it aren’t “covered” yet. Can cause bruising. I usually try to remind my mother-in-law or anyone who does that about it. Don’t know why everyone likes to do that. But I guess the definition of “shake” is also very subjective so I guess we just have to trust our instincts.
September 2nd, 2004 at 11:42 am
Wasabi! Eek!!! Mothers we are! Yes, my husband thinks i am overly protective sometimes… even during bedtime… I cant stand having a crying baby putting himself to sleep. Hes caucasian… i guess parenting styles are different compared to us asians … so we get upset with each other sometimes :/ *sigh* Miss those days when we are just so peaceful and loving to each other :((
I am trying to host my own blog but its not easy to do. Husband tried to run it on his unix box but its a lot of work and i cant go there :/ No go yet…
btw Huileng, our babes turned 200 days old yesterday :)) Way to go girl! :))
I am having my convo today… feeling a bit too old for convo
( i am 28) looking forward to seeing Tim graduate one day :))
September 2nd, 2004 at 11:40 pm
Congrats phoebe! So any plans for the furture, or continue staying at home to look after the kid? Its already 200 days, can’t believe time passes so fast! Hey, you will see him graduate soon. I still have the photo of myself wearing the convo robe during my kindergarten graduation, wonder if children now still wears that! Look so funny! Haha!