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MEMO FROM A CHILD: TO PARENTS

This memo was included in my childs introduction and welcome packet for KINDERGARTEN, he is 5.

1. Don't Spoil me.  I know quite well that I ought not to have all I ask for -- I'm only testing you.
2. Don't be afraid to be firm with me.  I prefer it; it makes me feel secure.
3. Don't let me form bad habits.  I have to rely on you to detect them in the early stages.
4. Don't make me feel smaller than I am.  It only makes me behave stupidly "big."
5. Don't correct me in front of other people if you can help it.  I'll take much more notice if you talk quietly with me in private.
6. Don't make me feel that my mistakes are sins.  It upsets my sense of values.
7. Don't protect me from consequences.  I need to learn the painful way sometimes.
8. Don't be upset when I say, "I hate you"  Sometimes it isn't you I hate but your power to thwart me.
9. Dont' take too much notice of my small ailments.  Sometimes they get me the attention I need.
10. Don't nag.  If you do, I shall have to protect myself by appearing deaf.
11. Don't forget that I cannot explain myself as well as I should like.  That is why I am not always accurate.
12. Don't put me off when I ask questions.  If you do, you will find that I stop asking and seek my information elsewhere.
13. Don't be inconsistent.  That completely confuses me and makes me lose faith in you.
14. Dont' tell me my fears are silly.  They are terribly real and you can do much to reassure me if you try to understand.
15. Don't ever sugget that you are perfect or infallible.  It gives me too great a shock when I discover that you are neither.
16. Don't ever think it is beneath your diginity to apologize to me.  An honest apology makes me feel surprisingly warm towards you.
17. Don't forget I love experimenting.  I couldn't get along without it, so please put up with it.
18. Don't forget how quickly I am growing up.  It must be very difficult for you to keep pace with me, but please do try.
19. Don't forget that I don't thrive without lots of love and understanding, but I don't need to tell you, do I?
20. Please keep yourself fit and healthy.  I need you.

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dream, Mon 16/11/09

Two dreams this morning.

At first, I was in a mansion. There were some beautiful bathrooms in the mansion. I had left some articles of my clothing in one of the bathrooms, one which was specifically for me.

I returned later and noticed that the toilet and my trousers had faeces smeared on it. It turned out to be my grandmother who had done it - she'd used the toilet carelessly and didn't bother to clean it up. I was furious.

My mother told me to leave the toilet and use her bathroom and that she would clean my toilet for me.

My father rescued a rogue rabbit. It was a little more violent than the other rabbits we had. My mother made my father get rid of it and I cried, even though I was an adult. She put it in a cloth bag and when I shook out the bag, two rabbit embryos popped out. I told myself I wouldn't forgive my mother for turfing out a pet just because it was 'difficult'.

* * *

I was at a library, and apparently it was part of RMIT. I went and asked the librarian for specific books and he told me I couldn't get them. He gave me alternative ones instead, by John Keats, and Fanny Brawne. They were tiny. Then they told me that I couldn't borrow them. I tried to hide them behind some books.

I was having a lot of trouble finding a decent spot to hide them in, and then Will Smith busted me and started filming me.

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the cold shoulder

Datuk and Nenek are giving me the cold shoulder now. I can't tell if they're upset with me or with each other, but they're doing a good job ignoring me.

If it does have to do with me, here's why:

Last night I caught the final qualifying match between Singapore and Thailand. The match sucked but your grandparents sucked even more. Datuk arranged to pick me up from the match later that night. But on meeting my friends, we decided to have supper so I texted him that I would be going home on my own that night. No reply.

At the end of the match, I received 4 missed calls and 2 messages from both male and female elders informing me that they are indeed waiting for me outside the stadium and please meet them there.

Should I see this as an act of blatant disrespect for my decisions? Or should I relent and emphasize their 'sacrifice' at being gracious enough to send me home?

I decided for the former. I tried to calm down before I returned their calls because I didn't want to get into a shouting match.

Unfortunately, when I did call, Nenek informed me that they have already left and I could get home by myself. This after I practically pushed your father into a cab. This after I walked over to where they said they were waiting.

I had nothing to say. I texted them back after hanging up, not trusting my control over my own temper, and told them I would head home in a bus.

That was almost 24 hours ago. They have not spoken to me since.

Every fibre of my being wants to leave this house, this judgment, this imprisonment. I want to pack up and leave.

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converse

I met Snowy when I was an undergraduate living on campus grounds and off cereal boxes. He was lost, wandering down the hallway on the fourth floor of my building. He found me.

That first night taught me that cats are people too. Nocturnal people anyway. He needed a bed, some milk and an insect to chase around before going to bed. I didn't have any of those. But he needed me all the same.

People change. Like animals, they need different things at different stages of their lives. Children change faster than any animal I know.

Child, I expect you to change. I expect you to use me as your boost up the ladder of life and then learn to climb, with me just behind you. Parents change too. As the child grows, the parent grows with the child and before you know it, both mother and daughter would have gone through and survived more than they ever thought themselves capable of. They just have to trust each other.

One day I will be a mother. You would be my Child. This is what I would say to you.

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When I grow up...

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