Xiao Xun's leg hurt for several days in a row, and after taking him to the hospital to see it, he did not check out any problems. At noon, I helped the limping man into the classroom, and as he was leaving, he gave me a heart.
After I left, I glanced in through the back door of the classroom and immediately saw him smiling and waving at my little fool.
It turned out that he had been watching me leave. I remembered him mysteriously pulling out his newly locked diary from his bag at noon after school, then opening it for me and saying:
Mom, this is my secret book, only me and you can read, the password is 1357, you see, I have written the first secret.
It reads: Mom, no matter what you do to me, I love you.
I know why he wrote this, because when he was writing his homework the night before, he wasn't serious and was murdered by me.
In my mind, two figures overlapped, one was Xiao Xunxun who was lying on the seat writing a little secret, and the other was Xiao Xunxun, who held my hand when I was a child and kept shouting "Mother" to me everywhere I went.
I remember him as the soft, sticky little cutie, but in the blink of an eye, he was in the second grade and had his own secret diary with a lock.
Maybe the next shot is: the door is posted with "Please knock on the door, don't let the idle people in." His secrets will no longer belong to the two of us, he will begin to have reservations about us, he will have his own circle of friends, and we are no longer his only ones.
Boy, just grow up.
In the afternoon, I read a picture book, and my mood at this time was really in line with the scene, the name of the picture book is "My Road", the author is the famous picture book author, illustrator, sculptor Xue Lan Jonakovic. His masterpieces have won numerous international awards and have been translated into dozens of languages and published around the world.
Although this picture book is a childlike story, I feel sad to see it. It's an autobiographical picture book about a boy who grows from baby to adulthood, works, gets married, and goes into old age.
The reason why I feel sad is that time passes so quickly, and I have watched the life of a boy in less than half an hour.
Therefore, the beginning of the sigh was issued, and the child grew up really fast.
Of course, the animated short film of the same name adapted from this picture book can win the Best Film and Best Design Awards at the Croatian Animation Film Festival, not to mention what the original picture book has to be.
Next, I will use my own understanding to dismantle this sad book, but it can be thought about.
My way? What is the road?
The first page of the picture book is a tall father, handing the baby a pair of shoes, the baby thinks: I really don't understand how you bought it until now, I have already climbed enough.
Oh, the little baby has grown from a little baby waiting to be fed to a little fart who wants to run around freely.
"Shoes can take me anywhere, I can go wherever I want, and I can go wherever I like."
Whether it starts with a child putting on shoes means that he is gradually moving away from us, and he will one day pursue his dreams and loves, and he will leave his parents far behind.
As a child, his path pointed to a ball; later his path pointed to music; then his path pointed to beautiful girls, to join the army, to get married, to have children, until he grew old, and the road was his garden.
Because he could not walk, his shoes had long been put on the shelf, and he wore slippers every day, and he no longer had the passion to run around when he was young.
What is his path for your child? Is it to study hard and improve every day? Is it for him to choose the path we have paved for him, or to let him go on his own and grope for it?
Xiao Xun has said to me countless times: Mom, I don't want to be a scientist or an engineer, I just want to do an ordinary job, an ordinary person.
Although I don't know where his idea came from, perhaps he felt that learning was a bit bitter and scientists a little difficult. However, I never thought it was a mediocre road, and it was very happy and rare to live an ordinary life.
Like the story in the picture book, I flipped through it, and in just 20 minutes, the little boy changed from a small fart child to a grandfather of the age of flower armor.
I just hope that when my children are old, they will feel that every job I have done is because of love, and every path I choose is because of love.
Well, that path is the right path.
Second, the small stones in the shoes
The baby put on the shoes, but found that the shoes were very unsuitable, because it always felt cramped when walking. Later, his mother bought him a pair of shoes that fit very well, not big or small, but why was it still uncomfortable?
When did this little pebble appear? The first time seemed to be when he was thinking in his heart: when the stingy diana only shared the cake with the girls in the class, Xiao Shizi appeared for the first time.
It turned out to be an invisible pebble, and whenever he had a bad idea, the pebble appeared, sometimes on the left foot, sometimes on the right foot. But the boy thought to himself: Thanks to this little pebble, otherwise in my first concert, if my eyes were only on the beautiful singer and forgot to look at the conductor, how bad would my violin have to be played.
This small stone is like the tight hoop spell on Sun Wukong's head, and whenever Sun Wukong commits a crime, the tight hoop spell sounds.
When a child is a child, the parents are this little stone that guides the child to be kind, positive and optimistic. When he grows up, the task of this little pebble is handed over to the child himself, self-examination and self-examination, to ensure that he sails in the correct channel.
Third, life is really a reincarnation
When I got this book, I thought it was the same as other picture books: it must be easy to understand for children. But I really didn't expect that this story would last a lifetime as soon as it was told.
On the last page, the elderly boy bought his grandson's first pair of shoes in the store, and he handed them to the little grandson with great interest and said: Look, what did I buy you? A pair of shoes – small shoes.
After the little grandson got the shoes, the words in his mind were the same as the words that grandpa had said: Why do you buy them now, I have already climbed enough.
The little ones can't wait to explore the world on their own.
Grandpa said: Your little pebble will come later.
Seeing this is actually very touching, I thought: it turns out that this is the meaning of having a child, the child is really the reincarnation of life, but also the continuation of life.
I have fantasized countless times about what kind of life I will live when Xiao Xunxun grows up and gets married and has children. With so many scenes, the happiest and warmest feeling is still the scene with the little grandson laughing.
Some people say that the delivery room is a magical place, everyone is crying wolf howl, and there is a place of feces and blood. But the delivery room will always be the most vibrant place. Because as long as you endure short-term suffering, you can usher in a new life.
And this life is a continuation of his own life, and he will soon be like his childhood: looking forward to growing up, being independent, and then finding the way in his life.
Such a cycle of life after cycle of life may be the most interesting meaning of "life" that we find.
In fact, there is a particularly interesting thing about the picture book "My Way", that is, the pictures on each page use a lot of collage art techniques. For example, on the page where the protagonist goes after the hat, some people are destroying a statue; for example, on the page of playing football, there is a part of a letter written in Portuguese.
In fact, these represent some things that happened to the writer at that age at that time that were of great significance to the author. Such as Apollo 11, Mickey Mouse and so on.
You may wonder here, is such an esoteric picture book suitable for children? But I think it's like the author said: this generation of children know far more than our generation, and children will ask when they don't understand. We can't always give children childish, simple and interesting little stories because we are afraid that children will not understand.
So we can try to read with our children because our children deserve to know more.
I think the book "My Way" must give you a thought, as I said at the beginning, children have to grow up really fast. After reading this picture book, you may feel that time passes faster.
So how on earth do we make time seem to slow down? Probably live in the moment and enjoy the moment. Of course, there is also the need to accompany the child to do some slow things, such as watching ants move.