been meaning to post this up a few days ago.
i’d screamed my head off each time she attempted to climb over the back of our new sofa, and also at her brother whom she was imitating. her daddy told me it was no use coz she’d already done this stunt a few times, but only at the point of me capturing this vid that i discovered she really could do it – without harming herself, apparently.
grrrr.
note her “dare-you-to-stop-me” look while she performed the stunt for my benefit, and then gleefully dancing her arms about as she tottered away from me in escape from persecution.
i once overheard an old makcik, a long time ago in my teenage days, loudly warning her young charges who were swinging on railings or whatever – “jangan buat gitu! nanti kau jatuh, kepala kau pecah!” and i remembered thinking, come on, makcik, seriously? break his head? how melodramatic! hyperbolic! exaggerating! coz it seemed ridiculous that a kid, an agile one at that, could drop on his head from swinging on some mere low railings, and have his skull crack open, spilling its bloody content out all over the ground.
but now, many years later and having become a mom, the image has turned into a highly possible (and gory) reality, and the same phrase, which i once scoffed indignantly at in my arrogant youth, is perpetuated on my very own children.
“TURUN! JANGAN BUAT GITU, NANTI KAU JATUH, KEPALA KAU PECAAAAH!”
yes, i have turned into that histrionic makcik after all, in this great, karmic circle of life.
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hahaha…..ah tul. i am using tt phrase to with my daughter. she is a climber….can push one dining chair from one end of the house to the other…*shake head
* fell down a couple of times also but still loves climbing. i seram…hari2 cam nak kena heart attack!!!
lol.
Hi same sofa as mine, btw its really scary when they do tat, my lil babe fell from the back and chipped her front tooth sob sob.
oh dear! :S
Haha auni’s cheeky grin at the end was cute!
i remember my younger brother was just as active as a toddler. maybe it’s because my mom did a lot of sports when she was pregnant with him. He’d run, not walk, everywhere. One day, he climbed onto the coffee table, ran across it, hopped onto the armrest of the sofa and then hopped to the backrest and then did a back flip out onto our balcony. all that happened in two blinks. we couldn’t react. then he ran off. want to scold also, the kid won’t stand still long enough to be scolded at.
Welcome to the ever mummy screaming club!
Its normal la mummy. This time she slides down. NExt step she will stand and JUMP off from the sofa board. Kids enjoy this stunt and they treat the your favourite sofa as their favourite playground. You just need to monitor.Screaming, shouting, jentik telinga also tak main!
Don’t worry, she will outgrow and stop. (my girl stopped once she accidentally fell, bite her lips and bleed and swollen-lesson learnt ah!) Lucky gig tak pecah!
Try bringing them to the park more often…maybe they will stop. (hope it works cos mine not effective) or place a side table behind your sofa…lagi teruk…he he anyways…
Parenting is not easy but enjoy while you can!…:)
Heheheh…I’m so tickled by ur entry! Yah I remembered teasing my aunts whenever they said that…..And yes, retribution is here! I used the same exact phrase myself….my mum terus kena kan I balik….she said:”Ohhhhhh kepala dia boleh pecah? Nampak tulang tak?”
Pfft!
mcm ni bagus suka panjat, nanti dah besar boleh ikut pak ngah go rock climbing….
hahaha so cute!
i was just over at my aunt’s place a few days ago and my boyfriend and i were playing around with my little 1-year-plus-old cousin when he started tottering and climbing around and attempting all these impossible-looking stunts (with gleeful pride, i must say). i started running towards him and sergah him and screaming all the “jangan gitu! nanti jatuh!” and “eh budak ni, takmu degil, nanti jatuh berdentum!” whathaveyous… to the point that my boyfriend gave me the speech of the year which, when summarised, sounds like this:
“eh relaks ah. you ni eh. nanti kita dah kahwin and you dah become a mother, cannot like that tau. let our children learn from their jatuh bangun and belajar from their own mistakes themselves.”
to which i retorted “yerlah, dah jatuh, kepala dah pecah, dah mampos, nak belajar from mistakes ke ape.”
hahaha. so much for my earnest promise to myself that i will be liberal and open-minded and adopt the angmoh way of parenting (i.e. biar anak belajar the workings of the world on his or her own, let them jatuh tergolek themselves so they will learn better) if and when i have my own child. from the above incident, nampak sah my cara nak jaga anak will be cara orang makan belacan. hampeh.
LOL! ok, funniest read of the day there. thanks, farna!
on a sidenote, kalau nak jaga macam angmoh here’s a good read http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8373690.stm
Hah! Yeah, our kids now are “mollycoddled and over-sanitised” indeed. Try telling my mum otherwise, she’ll freak. :p