When an educator, a parent or a guardian is too long at a job, does she feel more emphatic towards a child under her care or 'immuned' to the child's emotional well-being?
As an adult, we need to be more aware of our habits. As we are more 'sucked' into our daily job, family, friends, neighbours and etc. needs, we may become more complacent. We have grown to be a more mechanical robotic being; we respond to our environment need without sparing a moment to contemplate on the decisions made.
That's the moment when we ignore more pressing needs especially the unseen ones. We ignore the emotional and the spiritual needs in dealing with the physical needs of our surrounding.
A scene during the beginning of 2012 touched me. As I was doing my rounds, this scene caught me. It happened at a 4-yr-old class. All the children at this class have just entered the 'world' of Kindergarten.This little girl (Xi En) has only been in school a few days and yet, 'gave' herself to comfort a friend (Shahira) who was crying and missing her mum. She took a tissue and wiped her classmate's tears even though she still has separation anxiety. She tried her best to calm and comfort her friend.
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| Xi En doing her best to comfort her peer, Shahira |
Do you as a mother or caregiver respond the same way when you are so pressed in the middle of your chore (washing, cleaning, ironing, cooking, attending your baby...) to drop everything and wholeheartedly comfort your child who cried incessantly?
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