Bringing up a daughter is not easy!
I used to love having daughters more than sons
but i started to rethink when I see what happened to my cousins, especially yesterday.
My cousin came to my house and brought some cans of beer. She got sad NOT because she broke up with her recent boy some days ago but because she heard that her ex-boyfriend (before the recent boy) had a girl friend who is “pretty, 1m63 tall and 2 years older than him” :D. That guy is my brother’s close friend and seems very loyal. He used to continuously present my cousin flowers all 6 months long after they broke up, even when she got another boyfriend. then he gave up when he didn’t receive any sign of being moved from her…
She started to cry and drank beer. I said “you can cry but don’t drink. Don’t break you stomach.” Anyway when I was in the bathroom to take a shower, she almost finished three cans and got drunk. I jumped to her to take the third can and threw into the rubbish bin. I took her to my bed to rest but she threw all my pillows, my hugging pillow and my loved teddy bear into the floor!!! She almost threw my laptop down before I snatched it and put on the table. She took her phone and called the guy to make him worried. He drove to my house and stayed in the rain outside and then talked to me in the phone until I made sure that she was ok then he came back home. haizza!
Later she leaned her head on my knee. When I hugged her and stroked her hair, she started to speak like a radio reporter:
- Thủy ơi, i like you stroking my hair
- Uhm
- Thủy ơi, why dare he forget me and fall in love with a girl who is “pretty, 1m63 tall and 2 years older than him” ?
- Because you forgot him first. But it’s not your fault ’cause you did your best as your heart and your head told you.
- Do you feel disappointed with me?
- Yes. But I love you and I don’t want you to be suffering.
- Do you still love anh Avin?
- Who is he? (=D)
- The one’s name means “not good” í! bad í! ah, evil.
- It’s not his name.
- Who do you love more? anh Avin or anh “…” ?
- The two names are one person. (:D)
(God bless me! I told her too much! Two years ago, my brother and she used to call that name “Underwear” to more easily remember. akak).
- Thủy ơi, I am sad!
- Uhm
- Do you act like me if the person you love has another girl?
- No. Never. If I have to cry for that I will cry alone. Anyway I know you. You don’t love him anymore. You just feel lost because you always think he’s yours but now he’s not anymore. Now you just need time to rest. Don’t be hurried. When you are calm again you will see what you should do.
- No I love him. I want to hold him back. Why dare he love a “pretty, 1m63 tall and two-years-older-than-him” girl?
- If he doesn’t love you anymore. Don’t try to hold him back. He will look down on you and even if he stays, you won’t be happy anymore. I can forget the person very quickly if i have a feeling that he doesn’t care about me anymore because I know well that it doesn’t deserve my sadness. Wait until you are more calm to act. If it is a fate that he is yours then finally he will be yours. If it’s not, even though you try hard, he will finally leave you.
- But I am afraid its too late. and I will have to regret.
- One week or two weeks of waiting to be calmer doesn’t affect love. Love is a long way.
…
- Does he love you? What will you do if he falls in love with another girl?
- If he feels happy and I can’t do anything I want for him, I will feel happy for him.
- No. You have to to fight to have him.
- …
- Do you love me?
- Yes. Very much.
- I love you too. You are a good mother. I will get married with you! (!!!)
- Uhm. I will do it if you go to bed and sleep. Tomorrow you will feel better.
…
But she didn’t sleep. She kept talking a bit before I called a taxi to take her and her sister back home ’cause they left the house carelessly locked and their parents were not home. Haizza. I always love to have daughters, prefer daughters to sons, since I think to bring up sons to make them good is more difficult than doing so with girls. Moreover I want to read books for them, teach them playing music, make up and dress up daughters when they are growing :). But now, I think i will feel very painful and sad if i have to see my girls suffering from love or doing unproper things because of love. Girls are now very different from ones in my generation. they really need more care and also love from their parents, their relatives in a way they feel that they are talking to a special friend.
It seems not less tiring to bring up daughters if you are not well prepared and subtle enough.
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