聽媽媽的話,別在外遊蕩!
【聯合報╱陳弈忻/教(高雄市)】 2011.05.08 03:05 am
晚上近十一點和一位家長通完電話之後,想想現在的家長真是難為。握緊了怕弄疼了孩子,握鬆了又怕孩子就飛走了。
My comments: Such mixed emotions are well depicted in Linda Pastan's poem "To a Daughter Leaving Home," which I would put at the end of the entry. Though it has 24 lines, it contains only one sentence.
這是一個媽媽,她跟我說孩子晚上常常出去。而她若制止的話,孩子就不高興。於是有早睡習慣的她,必須等到孩子平安回家之後,她才敢闔眼。但孩子卻無視媽媽掛心,依舊我行我素,令她不知所措。
My comments: I can't see any reason for the kid to be angry.
為人子女的很容易把父母親的愛當做是天經地義的,而不懂得珍惜。其實很多媽媽都已調整好自己的心態,她們對孩子的態度是關愛而不干涉,包容而不縱容。只不過孩子們能體會到母親的苦心嗎?
My comments: Most people can't put themselves in their parents' shoes until they become parents.
母親節,在外遊蕩的孩子,是不是該自省一下,聽媽媽的話,也許人生就會在這裡轉了彎,我們可以擁有一個不一樣的未來!
My comments: I don't want to be didactic; however, I must say all the troubles begin with inability to examine one's own life.
P.S.
“To a Daughter Leaving Home”
by Linda Pastan
When I taught you
at eight to ride
a bicycle, loping along
beside you
as you wobbled away
on two round wheels,
my own mouth rounding
in surprise when you pulled
ahead down the curved
path of the park,
I kept waiting
for the thud
of your crash as I
sprinted to catch up,
while you grew
smaller, more breakable
with distance,
pumping, pumping
for your life, screaming
with laughter,
the hair flapping
behind you like a
handkerchief waving
goodbye.
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