橙汁小朋友最近总想着要一个人做点什么事情:“一个人下楼去玩”,“一个人去坐校车”……爸爸告诉他:你想一个人出去玩,首先得可以“一个人睡觉”。
哈哈,小朋友一直跟着爸爸妈妈睡,总害怕自己睡有怪兽。断断续续也睡过自己房间,没两天就又回来大房间跟爸爸妈妈一起挤着了。
一听说要“一个人睡觉”,橙汁小朋友暂时就没吭声了。只是心心念念还是想要“一个人下楼去玩”“一个人去坐校车”。
某一天晚上,看完书,小朋友说,妈妈,我今天要睡自己的床。我说,今天床还没有准备好,明天白天妈妈给你把被子晒晒,房间整理好你就可以去睡了。橙汁小朋友欣然同意。
第二天晚上,讲完故事又到睡觉的时间,橙汁还是有点小害怕一个人睡,跟我说:妈妈,你先陪我睡一会儿,等我睡着了你再轻轻地回你的房间,这样也算是我一个人睡的吗?
我偷偷地笑:算,当然算啦。
小朋友:不知道Ricky是不是自己睡的
(Ricky是他的同班同学,也是同一个小区的,两个人一直一起玩儿)。
我说:Ricky好像还是跟爸爸妈妈一起睡的呢!
小朋友开心得很:嘻嘻,那我就比Ricky牛了。
这个晚上小朋友睡得挺好,中间并没有往大房间再跑。
第三天早上橙汁小朋友可开心地说要自己一个人去坐校车。路上有一个红绿灯,爷爷奶奶不放心,借口要去买菜远远地跟在后面。晚上回来就听他说特别特别高兴,可以“一个人坐校车”了,比Ricky厉害。
敢情这么强大的动力都是因为要赛过同龄的小朋友嘛?
慢慢独立的橙汁另一方面,对于妈妈来说,虽然已经做好了“对孩子最好的教育就是帮助他尽快完成独立”的心理准备,只是突然之间真正发生的时候,心里感觉有些没准备好,有一些小小的失落。
这时候又想起龙应台的《目送》说的那句话“我慢慢地、慢慢地了解到,所谓父女母子一场,只不过意味着,你和他的缘分就是今生今世不断地在目送他的背影渐行渐远。你站在小路的这一端,看着他逐渐消失在小路转弯的地方,而且,他用背影告诉你:不必追。”
心里有点儿闷闷的。
孩子逐渐长大,总有一天会独立。作为父母,应该以什么样的心态去对待这件事情?
以最爱的纪伯伦的那首《Children》作为本文的结束吧。
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies,
So He loves also the bow that is stable.
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