This is our eldest son, David. He’s now 7 yrs old and a grade 2 student. And he just told me and my wife that he’s “engaged” to one of his classmates.
When David was born, he truly brought immense joy to me and my wife. As 1st time parents then, we really enjoyed every bit of his cuteness. But time goes by so fast. After a couple of years, David was a “kuya”. And then, he began to go to school. And now he’s in the 2nd grade, he looks so big already.
As you can see, there’s no dispute he’s really good looking, just like his siblings…good trees produce good fruit…hehehe. So it’s no wonder that he gets a lot of “fans” from his girl classmates. When he was in grade 1, he had a classmates that called him up on the phone every afternoon. This year, he got elected class president by majority of his girl classmates, hehehe.
The other night, my wife and I were teasing our 2nd son, Daniel, with one of his girl classmates. David interrupted us by saying “mama, papa, ako talaga meron nang crush at meron din sya crush sa akin. Feeling nga namin mag-boyfriend-girlfriend na kami. Feeling talaga namin engaged na kami at magpapakasal…”
I looked at my wife, she looked back, our jaws dropped and eyes wide at amazement. WHERE IN THE WORLD DID DAVID EVER GET THESE THINGS!!!
Haaaaayayayay! The power of television. The effect of watching stairway to heaven. It was kind of amusing to hear David say these, much so that we know it wasn’t something serious. We wanted David to feel that we were open enough that he can tell us these things, so we couldn’t totally shut the topic down. Still we had to remind him to study well and that he was still too young to be thinking about this.
David is now young. But there will be a day, as time flies by too fast, that he will be old enough to truly bring before us his wife-to-be. It may be 15, 20, 25 years from now, but that day will come.
We pray now that we cherish every single moment of childhood we have with our kids. It shall only pass us once. They can never be kids again. Once they hit adolescence, there’s no turning back, they are adults for the rest of their lives.
That’s why sometimes, we just allow them to roam around, jump around, scream, play and do what kids do, even though it tears the house down. And as much as we can, my wife and I engage them in pillow fights, wrestling, etc. etc. So to David’s “fiancee”, we have to call off the engagement. It’s not yet time for this. Now is the time to play, to enjoy, to study, to build up the love and security we have for our kids. Now is the time for them to be kids and to be treated as such. Now is the time to create the memories we’ll have in the future.
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