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… just a 25-year-old who still wishes it would rain chocolates one day. No matter how many stilettos she learns to walk in and never mind that she breathes work and smells of stale potential, she’d always be half in love with peter pan and that secret, secret place not-so-little girls go to when they do not want to grow up or compromise their dreams.

    

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Raising Alex

April 30, 2008

It gets to me at times, you know. It gets to me that I might not be doing this motherhood thing right.

On socio-economics:

ALEX: Ma, why does Annika ride a car to school while I take a sikad?
CHIN: Because you’re smarter than Annika.
ALEX: Smart girls ride trisikad?
CHIN: Yes, but the smartest ones walk.
WETT: Ma, stop!
CHIN: But it’s true! People back then attained unimaginable heights of brilliance because they didn’t have contraptions to bog them down. Rizal walked to school! Einstein walked to school!
ALEX: Can I walk to school with Rizal and Einstein?

On biology:

NEIGHBOR: Oh wow! Your mommy is pregnant.
ALEX: Yes. It’s because of Dad’s sperm and Mama’s egg.

I don’t know how other mothers do it - explain truths in PAMET-approved ways. I used to shush Alex whenever she gets too creative with her questions. What happens to dead babies? Why doesn’t Renan go to my school? Are we rich? Why aren’t we rich? How come you don’t wash our clothes but Junior’s mom does? Evasion is never good, however, because if she doesn’t get answers from me, she would get them from someone else. So now, I dredge up what honesty I could, given the circumstances, and try not to flinch whenever she asks questions with not so nice answers.

I console myself with the thought that while my daughter might not be getting the usual upbringing, she’s at least getting an interesting and - when appropriate - scientifically correct one. 

 

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i love alex because she’s the smartest girl i know.. heheheh.. tell her i’m thumbs up if one day she and max decide to go out and paint the town red.

Posted by mai at May 3, 2008, 7:42 pm

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