After reading my post on “life isn’t always easy” two days ago, my eldest son Brendan was “full of feelings”.  In fact, when he told me that he read through the whole post a few times….deeply touched and encouraged…..I was surprised that my young boy has the patience.  He asked me if he could drop me a comment in my blog.

Knowing my eldest boy, he has always been more comfortable to express his inner and emotional thoughts on paper than by words.  After he learned how to write, he has on several occasions written me several cards and notes to express his feelings. I have kept these little cards and notes that he has prepared.

Then it daunts on me that I could start a little communications book with him …. a book on exchanges of ideas and thoughts…a bond between mother and child…. and something that we could still look back at, years down the road. This book we named “Our Little Red Book”.

Today, I am happy and touched as Brendan starts the first chapter of his communications with me in “Our Little Red Book”.  My face lit up when I saw his special message for me when I came back from the supermarket. I did not know that my post could motivate him to write this comment for me.

To give a little encouragement to my little boy, I dropped him this note in “Our Little Red Book”. Children get highly motivated when they are praised. It does not cost a cent to give our children a little praise when they deserve it:)

“Brendan, you have made your father and I happy too because you are a hardworking little boy. You have always been responsible and hardworking in putting in good efforts in your studies and everything you do. You have made us proud of you. Continue your hard work. You have always been very caring towards mommy and lifted up my mood when I feel tired and troubled. Continue to show the same care to Papa, Darren and friends around you too.”

I hope we will persevere to share our mother-and-son’s thoughts in this little communications book. Perhaps, if it works, I will share a communications book with my little little Darren too when he could write better. With due respect to Brendan, all future contents in “Our Little Red Book” will be for our eyes only and kept safely in Brendan’s secret corner:) “WINK”.

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