那天走到诊所前面，
娃儿突然问：
“妈妈，你为什么每次都停那么远？我们得走好久。”
这时候，
我让他看旁边正在等停车位的那些车，道：
“是不是？我很聪明。”
娃儿：
“不是，是我告诉你的。”
⸻
在等的时候，
我发现他拿着手去碰旁边的东西。
我说：
“手不能乱摸，这是医院，很脏！”
娃儿赶紧把手放下来了。
⸻
过了一个小时，
我大概已经有十五六个小时没吃东西了。
我问他：
“你觉得我现在应该吃块面包吗？太饿了！”
娃儿：
“不要吃，这里面有毒！”
只有我们两个在一个不到六平方米的小房间里等医生。
我一下子没反应过来，
什么有毒？
愣了几秒后，
我才突然想到：
“哦，我怎么给忘了，细菌是吧！”
“是的！”娃儿说。
“那我再等等。”我说。
⸻
又过了一会儿，
医生问我：
“你是不是空腹？”
我回答：
“是。”
医生说：
“那今天也可以直接抽血了！”
我赶紧跟娃儿说：
“太好了！
还好你刚刚告诉我先别吃东西，
要不然我们之后还得再来。”
娃儿想都没想，
马上说：
“我帮你省了九亿个小时。”
我心想：
又来了。
⸻
回到家后，
已经饿扁了。
我把他说挺好吃不用退的玉米热狗拿出来。
吃了几口后，
我忍不住问：
“这挺好吃的呀？
爸爸为什么说不好吃？”
娃儿很平静地说：
“那可能只是他的想法。”
“是啊，
害我还白白丢掉一个。”
我说。
娃儿没再说什么。
⸻
前两天，
他摆乐高摆到晚上快十二点。
我提醒他：
“很晚了，
明天再摆。”
结果他突然很认真地说：
“你不能让我随便放弃！
我一定要坚持！
谁让我放弃，
谁就不是好人！”
我心想：
What？
赶紧跟他说：
“我没有让你放弃。
我只是说，
我们先暂停，
明天继续。
哪有人一定要一口气拼完的！”
过了一会儿，
估计是自己也困了。
就直接进房间睡了。
婷妈的亲子日常 创作于 2026.06.07
原创发布： tingtingma.com
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Tingma’s Parenting Diary | 280. We Can Talk About Anything
That day, as we were walking toward the dental clinic,
my son suddenly asked,
“Mom, why do you always park so far away? We have to walk so much.”
At that moment,
I pointed to all the cars waiting for parking spots and said,
“See? I’m pretty smart.”
My son replied,
“No, it was my idea.”
⸻
While we were waiting,
I noticed him reaching out to touch things around the room.
I said,
“Don’t touch things with your hands. This is a hospital. It’s dirty!”
He quickly put his hands down.
⸻
After about an hour,
I realized I hadn’t eaten anything for fifteen or sixteen hours.
I asked him,
“Do you think I should eat a piece of bread? I’m so hungry!”
My son said,
“No. There’s poison in here!”
It was just the two of us waiting in a tiny room, probably less than six square meters.
At first,
I had no idea what he meant.
Poison?
A few seconds later,
it suddenly hit me.
“Oh, how could I forget? You mean germs, right?”
“Yes!” he said.
“Then I’ll wait a little longer,” I replied.
⸻
A little while later,
the doctor asked,
“Have you been fasting?”
I answered,
“Yes.”
The doctor smiled and said,
“Great! Then we can do your blood work today as well.”
I immediately turned to my son and said,
“That’s wonderful!
Good thing you told me not to eat,
otherwise we would have had to come back another day.”
Without even thinking,
he said,
“I just saved you nine hundred million hours.”
I thought to myself,
Here we go again.
⸻
When we got home,
I was absolutely starving.
I took out the corn dogs that he had said were good and didn’t need to be returned.
After a few bites,
I couldn’t help asking,
“These are actually pretty good.
Why did Dad say they weren’t?”
My son answered very calmly,
“Well, that’s just his opinion.”
“Yeah.
I even threw one away because of that.”
I said.
He didn’t say anything else.
⸻
A few days earlier,
he had been building his LEGO set until almost midnight.
I reminded him,
“It’s getting late.
You can finish it tomorrow.”
Suddenly he became very serious.
“You can’t make me give up!
I have to keep going!
Anyone who makes me give up
is not a good person!”
I thought,
What?
So I quickly explained,
“I’m not asking you to give up.
I’m just saying
we can pause
and continue tomorrow.
Who says everything has to be finished all at once?”
A little while later,
he was probably tired himself.
He simply walked into his room
and went to sleep.
Tingma’s Parenting Diary
Written on June 07, 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.