My daughter Jerrie, 10, gave me a fright of my life. Never had I expected a reaction such as that from her. Her sense of emphathy and interpretation of adults behaviour were quite out of sync with my expectations.
During our holiday in Taiwan last December, the whole tour group happened to be enthusiastically bargaining with a young tea salesman over the price of his premium green tea leaves (about S$100 for a small pack of 150g tea). I must say our tour mates were quite skilled in bringing the discount from 20% to 50% in an extremely hilarious way (at least that was how I saw it), haggling over the price as if we had known the sales man for ages). But Jerrie unexpectedly broke out in tears upon seeing this and after some probing, I found out that she felt that the tour group people (including me) were really very mean and nasty to the salesman. She felt very sorry for the salesman and said so many people should not have cornered and attacked just one man and if he had given so much discount, how was he going to profit in his sales.
It was an incident that got me wondering much about my child and her perspectives.
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