Toddlers Love Thanksgiving
Toddlers wail and holler because of boring parents, not because of presumed reasons.
He is wet.
She must be hungry.
Toddlers cry because parents are predictable. Getting into the stroller is either good or
bad news. Good news if it is going out
of the apartment or house to interact with the world, bad news if it is going
back home to spend another day fenced in, like convicted criminals.
They can have beautiful pink or blue rooms with toys bought
from Toys “R” Us, before the business filed for bankruptcy, but toddlers want
more, to touch and feel the world. They
itch for adventure. That is why they smile at strangers, extend their tiny
hands to touch the bus window, point at dogs and run around the mall with mum in
hot pursuit.
Toddlers are not born equal.
Toddlers in the north of the world spend most of their time indoors staring
at blowing snow while their counterparts down south in Africa drive their brothers and
sisters crazy, because they want to follow them everywhere. Rain is the only thing that stops the
adventure.Toddlers in Canada and the U.S. therefore look forward to Thanksgiving because it will be a break from boring parents. There will be more hands to pick them up and marvel at their beauty. They will eat from someone’s arms, not chained to the chair. They will crawl around the house running away from cousins but they will stop at grandfather’s wheelchair, and think.
They will definitely think.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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