Who is your best friend? Your classmate? A friend you knew for decade?
On Chung Yeung Festival last week, I told my son that I was going to visit his Grandpa who “lived in” far far away. He was curious that I also have father at first, then he shared an interesting idea with me: “Daddy love Grandpa, Mammy also love Grandpa, I love Daddy, Mammy and Little brother the most.”
He smiled and was proud of his discovery. I was touched and inspired since his idea remind me that children always treat their parents to be the most important role models or best friends before growing up.
A research was conducted by a local university in 2019 show that friendship can have positive influence to parenting and family harmony, but the impact will be reduced while teenagers increase the number of friends. It is true that we always forget how important our parents were in our life after we expand our social network in reality and on the Internet.
It is not necessary that you should add your parents in your friends list, but just try to remember how you loved your parents purely in childhood before you want to unfriend them.
Saturday, 3 May 2025