2007/06/28

給為人父母的一個小故事 A short story for parents

一個星期天,一位爸爸領他的小孩上茶樓飲茶。他們剛進茶樓大門,小孩就站立不動,不肯進茶樓....。原來那裡安置好幾個魚缸,養殖了不同的河鮮和海鮮,小孩就是只管看魚,不肯再多走一步。時近中午,客人開始多,位置還未有找到,而且其他的家裡的人馬上要到,做爸爸的焦急得不得了,屢勸無效,就在快要伸手打小孩的時候,不知甚麼原因這位爸爸彎下腰,在剛好跟小孩一樣的高度望了魚缸一眼。

這一下子做爸爸的停了下來,原來小孩看見的是另外一個世界...

如果你是這位爸爸, 接下去你會怎樣跟孩子說?

On a Sunday morning, a father took his son to a Chinese restaurant for dim sum. While they were entering the restaurant, the son stopped and refused to move further. There’re fish tanks at the entrance of the restaurant, keeping fresh water and sea water fishes. It’s about noon, getting more and more people, and other family members were about to arrive in no time. The father was getting anxious; he could not manage to persuade his son to go inside. When he was about to raise his hand and hit on the son, for unknown reasons, he bend down to appropriate the same level as his son, from there he look at the fish tanks.

Wow! Now he realizes that his son has a different perspective of the world.

If you were the father, what would you say to your son now?