My daughter called me when she was a sophomore in college and told me excitedly and proudly, "Mom, the teacher asked us to watch more than 1,000 of the world's best cartoons. I found that you took me with you when I was little. I’ve seen it!”
At this time, the mother and daughter, thousands of miles apart, looked at each other and smiled inwardly, like a little tacit understanding between two good friends who blinked and stuck their tongues out.
I have never mentioned it to anyone, that is, in the process of my pregnancy, confinement and accompanying my child to grow up, I let go of a child inside and enjoyed my childhood happily with my daughter. . It is said that adults should behave like adults, but in fact, there is not a naughty child in every adult.
During my pregnancy, in addition to reading professional books on perinatal period and raising children, I read almost all the fairy tales I could find and buy. Every day after dinner, I would turn on the TV on time to watch Cartoon Channel. . I guess the baby in my belly also likes this channel. Unexpectedly, all this became prenatal education for my daughter.
During the Spring Festival of the year my daughter was born, I planted a pot of daffodils at home. At that time, I was reading a book - "Ning Xiner in Life", which talks about a pregnant mother's love for her unborn child. I remember it mentioned in the book that if the narcissus flowers have double petals, it must be a daughter. . The daffodils bloomed beautifully that year.
During my confinement period, I was chasing a set of Japanese anime in my father’s bookstore downstairs. I was obsessed with it. Plus, spending the whole day with my little cutie, I felt like I was living in a fairy tale. .
We have a similar connection with our daughter’s childhood, maybe because I was really young at that time and still had a lot of fun.
I play with my children every day and grow together. I can help her copy and catch up on her homework, but we must have a wonderful time every day, sitting on the carpet in the living room and watching the best cartoons together, like enjoying a feast. We watched all of Disney’s most classic cartoons, started watching Hayao Miyazaki’s, and watched classic cartoons from various companies. I still have these CDs on my bookshelf. Those days when we laughed together, those days when we held the guitar and sang "Childhood", and those days when we danced barefoot on the carpet to the cartoon theme song have become treasures of the years.
There is a very classic line in "The Little Pony King" and "Pocahontas" - "Follow your own heart." This is a sentence that made my daughter's eyes sparkle when she was a child. . In Hayao Miyazaki's "Kiki's Delivery Service", the story of the little witch who lost her magic because she doubted herself when she was growing up, and finally regained her magic after going through trials, helped her daughter go through the difficulties in her growth.
There was a time when it was popular among the children in the yard to watch "Salted Egg Superman". My daughter wanted to fully integrate into it but also wanted to follow her own heart. She came to ask me. I remember I thought about it and said : "Of course you can like Salted Egg Superman, but don't forget that the truly classic movies that you really like can represent your taste." In the end, my daughter truly chose her own taste, and it was also consistent with Her friends in the courtyard became her best playmates, and she spent her happy childhood.
Once when I was watching a movie at home, when the Disney title appeared on the TV screen again, my daughter, who was about three or four years old at the time, flushed with excitement and pointed at the Disney logo with bright eyes. Asked me, "What is this?" I said, "Is this the logo of the Disney Company?" "Company?" She said to me firmly and seriously: "Mom, when I grow up, I must work for a company like this. !" I laughed, thinking that such a dream was so interesting and far-fetched.
In the end, she followed her true heart and entered the top schools and majors in the country with excellent art test scores. She also entered the best animation design company in the world with excellent scores. She was just in her early 20s. At the age of 18, his graduation project won a gold medal, a silver medal in International Animation, and a Tokyo Animation award-winning work. He also signed a publishing contract with the most well-known publishing house in China.
Looking back on the past, I found that a part of my life that I have secretly retained - the innocent childlike innocence, seems to be just for the tacit understanding between mother and daughter, the most precious encounter in life. .
I have always been grateful that Ning Xiner came into my life and allowed me to experience my happy childhood again. No matter where my daughter goes in the future, those joyful and happy memories will always be treasured in my heart.
My daughter came back from her senior year in college. One day we were walking together. I held her hand and said, "I was too young when I became a mother. Please forgive me if I did something bad!" Daughter Laughing dizzy.
Yes, if time could come back, I hope I would still be your mother and still walk through those unparalleled beautiful years with you hand in hand.