晚上忙完事情，
突然想逗一下娃儿。
我问他：
“baby，你今天开心吗？”
他看了我一眼，
很淡地回了一句：
“开心。”
我一下子有点兴奋，继续追问：
“什么事让你有开心的感觉啊？”
我心里其实已经默认答案了——
今天不是刚一起去海滩吗？
结果他来了一句：
“看书让我很开心。”
我当下愣了一下。
怎么会是看书？
我忍不住说：
“我以为你会说，跟爸爸妈妈去海滩玩很开心呢！”
——
没想到，他情绪一下子上来了。
带着点激动、甚至有点生气地说：
“都是你一直跟我聊天，让我分心了！
我吃到一半的炸虾，被海鸥抢走了！”
这才想起来。
他今天第一次吃炸虾，
觉得特别好吃。
我们给他买了五个。
他一开始就提前“声明”：
这五个都是他的，谁都不能吃。
结果——
还没吃完，
一只海鸥突然飞过来，
直接叼走了仅剩的半个。
还顺带啄了他一下手。
——
我一听，心里下意识想：
这又不关我的事啊。
于是我也开始“辩解”：
“我又不是故意的，我也不知道它会突然飞过来啊！
而且我自己的鸡块也被抢走了，我也少吃了很多！”
——
他想都没想，立刻回我一句：
“这就叫Karma！
都不用我动手，海鸥就让你也遭到了一样的事情！”
我当场愣住。
心想：
这小孩，现在连“Karma”都用得这么顺了吗？
——
我怕他还在怪我，赶紧补一句：
“要不这样吧，下次我赔你一些炸虾。”
他立刻说：
“给我九百万个！”
我说：
“他们都没卖这么多。”
他想了一下，改口：
“那……20个也行。”
我心里迅速算了一下——
五个一块五，
那二十个，大概六块钱。
好像……还能接受。
我说：
“要不你付钱，我请客！”
——
话刚说完，
他又开始生气了。
“那不行！”
然后自己想了个新方案：
“要不这样——
我给你五个，我自己吃十五个，怎么样？”
我说：
“可以啊。”
——
就这样，
这件原本“都是你害我少吃炸虾”的事，
终于结束了。
他也不再继续指责我了。
婷妈的亲子日常 创作于 2026.05.03
原创发布： tingtingma.com
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《Ting Ma’s Daily Parenting | 251. Rain, Fried Shrimp, and His “Karma”》
After finishing everything for the night,
I suddenly felt like teasing my kid a little.
So I asked him:
“Baby, were you happy today?”
He looked at me
and replied very calmly:
“Yeah.”
I got a little excited and kept going:
“What made you feel happy?”
In my mind, I already had an answer—
didn’t we just go to the beach today?
But instead, he said:
“Reading made me really happy.”
I froze for a second.
Reading?
I couldn’t help but say:
“I thought you were going to say going to the beach with Mom and Dad made you happy.”
—
I didn’t expect his mood to change instantly.
He got a bit worked up, even a little upset:
“It’s because you kept talking to me and distracted me!
I was halfway through eating my fried shrimp, and a seagull snatched it away!”
That’s when I remembered.
It was his first time trying fried shrimp today,
and he really liked it.
We bought him five pieces.
Right from the start, he had “announced”:
“All five are mine. Nobody can eat them.”
But then—
before he even finished,
a seagull suddenly swooped down
and snatched the last half piece.
It even pecked his hand a little.
—
My first instinct was:
This isn’t really my fault.
So I started defending myself:
“I didn’t do it on purpose! I had no idea a seagull would suddenly attack you!
Besides, my chicken nuggets got snatched too. I lost food as well!”
—
Without even thinking, he shot back:
“That’s called karma!
I didn’t even have to do anything— the seagull made the same thing happen to you!”
I was stunned.
I thought to myself:
Wow… this kid is really using “karma” like a pro now.
—
Worried that he was still blaming me, I quickly added:
“How about this—I’ll make it up to you next time and buy you more fried shrimp.”
He immediately said:
“I want nine million of them!”
I said:
“They don’t even sell that many.”
He thought for a moment, then changed his mind:
“Then… twenty is fine.”
I quickly did the math in my head—
Five cost $1.50,
so twenty would be about six dollars.
That… actually sounded acceptable.
So I said:
“How about this—you pay, and I’ll treat you!”
—
The moment I said that,
he got upset again.
“No, that won’t work!”
Then he came up with a new plan:
“How about this—
I give you five, and I keep fifteen. Deal?”
I said:
“Sure.”
—
And just like that,
the whole situation—
which had started as “this is all your fault for making me lose my shrimp”—
finally came to an end.
And he stopped blaming me.
Tingma’s Parenting Diary
Written on May 3, 2026
Originally published at: tingtingma.com
Written for my child, and for the adults who are still growing.
Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited.
Originally written in Chinese by the author.
This English version was translated with the assistance of ChatGPT.