Playpens First Real Estate
Once upon a time, new immigrants to Australia, Canada and U.S. lived together with their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles so kids were used to warmth, because there was always somebody wanting to hold them.
Kids are amazing. They know where to stretch their little arms, when they want to be picked up. They fold them like a snail retreating into its shell, if they don’t know you.
Things settled in the new country. Family members moved away from farms and got jobs in the city or other states. Arms for holding kids diminished. That is how the playpen was born.
It was kids’ first real estate property. It had a picket fence, before they started making nylon ones. Kids grabbed the picket fence bars to stand up. They also looked through them to see if someone was coming.
They added one plus one, and got two. Their first real estate property had family and friends called teddy bears, but they were not warm. They figured they were in prison, so they emptied their lungs. Very effective. Wailing is a guarantee that someone will come to their rescue.
Later on in life, they realized the playpen’s value. The picket fence kept away parents from their rooms. They fought brothers and sisters who played with their bicycles. Parents bought them their first mobile property, the car.
Life is sweet, one long quest to live inside picket fences. If only kids and the wife would understand that daddy doesn’t want to be disturbed when he’s on the phone or laptop.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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