Innocence

Doesn't your heart just mellow when your little one has a first glance at you as you go making every funny face and outa-this-world baby sounds, so as to appease and have the baby smile? Especially to a mother who is breast-feeding the baby. The knowingly look, the angelic smile, the heavenly laugh... wow! And when they wake up from their nap or sleep,...ooooh...

Yeah, there. Right there, the baby scrutinises you and immediately develops that sense of belonging and assurance that I am in the arms/in company of someone who loves me. You know, even at their infancy, they can read and sense joy, anger and discontent just from a glance! Notice how a baby refuses to be carried by some particular people? Huh?

As they grow up from terrible-four to terrible-two, they always know what kind of dress-code is house-wear and going-out-of-tha-house-wear! You know, there they are, minding their own business and suddenly you make an appearance. The minute they have a glance at you, the activity there-after is critical.

If you are in your kawaida house-clothes, mainly casual wear, the child is usually relaxed and knows there's no where in hell you gonna go out looking like that! You have already made it a routine of all your actions and activities, such that should there be any slight change, it is noticeable the minute they throw a glance at you.

All hell breaks loose the minute they know the person they feel very secure and loved when around them, is about to leave the home to attend to other matters outside. They usually cry their lungs out and that leaves the parent with a very heavy heart and really bad taste in the mouth! The cries keep ringing in your head and keeps haunting you till your conscience decides what fate succumbs you there-after.

Many a parents usually have to device gimmicks as to send the baby away for a while. Just enough time for you to get ready and duck out of the house! The smarter ones sense the catch and will insist on remaining behind with you or offer that you better accompany them... 'if you what me to go...' negotiation talk. Boy! Talk about the power of a glance!