Yesterday evening somehow it crossed my mind, how the little children and grandparents are look alike.
They behave similarly, love to play and have fun
They love to be accompanied
They love to talk of course with different topics
They don't care about money
Their basic needs are time and attention.
In this modern days, a lot of parents are working very hard eventhough they have roof under their head because they have a high standard of expectation and can't help to sacrifice the little ones.
They put the children under someone else care like childcare or grandparents' house.
Do they feel guilty ? Yes, absolutely but to cover up their guilty, they start buying a lot of presents, lenient to the kids etc.
Are they really what the children want ?
I don't think so
Children live very simple, they don't expect much. What they want are simply time and companion.
They basically don't need the expensive gifts or luxurious holiday or fancy food
On the other hand, I realised grandparents are also alike.
Eventhough they may need money just to get by in life but what they really need most are attention and companion from their children and family.
Take it for eg my parents, eventhough they could do whatever they want to do after the children are grown up like traveling etc but still they prefer to have travel companion, chatting with me, etc
It's indifferent with my parents in law, they love to have companion and listen to what the children and grandchildren say in life and in school.
But sometimes, we are too busy with ourselves making money and end up sending our parents to old folk homes or worse we just send them monthly allowance but never see them face to face.
This is just my reflection which I hope it will be self-reminder when I am too busy with my life and care less about the loved ones.
They behave similarly, love to play and have fun
They love to be accompanied
They love to talk of course with different topics
They don't care about money
Their basic needs are time and attention.
In this modern days, a lot of parents are working very hard eventhough they have roof under their head because they have a high standard of expectation and can't help to sacrifice the little ones.
They put the children under someone else care like childcare or grandparents' house.
Do they feel guilty ? Yes, absolutely but to cover up their guilty, they start buying a lot of presents, lenient to the kids etc.
Are they really what the children want ?
I don't think so
Children live very simple, they don't expect much. What they want are simply time and companion.
They basically don't need the expensive gifts or luxurious holiday or fancy food
On the other hand, I realised grandparents are also alike.
Eventhough they may need money just to get by in life but what they really need most are attention and companion from their children and family.
Take it for eg my parents, eventhough they could do whatever they want to do after the children are grown up like traveling etc but still they prefer to have travel companion, chatting with me, etc
It's indifferent with my parents in law, they love to have companion and listen to what the children and grandchildren say in life and in school.
But sometimes, we are too busy with ourselves making money and end up sending our parents to old folk homes or worse we just send them monthly allowance but never see them face to face.
This is just my reflection which I hope it will be self-reminder when I am too busy with my life and care less about the loved ones.
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