An attempt of the mother to get her teenage son to take her arms when they went out, and it’d, worked too! Translated…
It’s very difficult, to connect with teenagers these days, we’d needed to, have this, “trade-off”. Awhile ago, my second child who rarely enters into the cram schools wanted to inquire about the grade points, I’d told him I will go with him, and in return, I’d, asked him to come along to get my cell phone wrapped.
As we left the cram school, we’d entered into the underground shopping strip, I really want to take my son’s arms in mine, but this kid, hadn’t allowed me any “intimate contact” with him a long, long time, and so, I’d, brought up the “trade-off” idea again, “Let’s do a practice, if one day you get a girlfriend, you will shop around with her.” I’d, wrapped my arm in his, and, stated matter-of-factly, that I will be, playing the role of his, “future girlfriend”.
what this teen is being prepared by his mother for…
As I saw the graffiti-painted rolled down doors of the shops, I’d asked him, “do you think this looks pretty?”, he’d said gloatingly, “that’s easy, my classmates taught me, whatever their girlfriends asked, the right answer is, ‘not as beautiful as you are’.”, I’d rolled my eyes, “Come on, this IS a landscape painting, your girlfriend will think you’re, brushing her off!”. “Fine then, what do I answer? I can’t tell if this painting is any good!”, “Maybe, your girlfriend is trying to make conversation, or maybe, she’s into art, you can conservatively reply, for instance, ‘is purple being used there a bit odd?’ or ‘the skies are painted beautifully that way!’, and, always ask what she thinks after you’d answered, with the flows of exchange, you two won’t run out of things to say to one another.”
Then, we’d passed through a clothing store, “Wow, this is such a pretty shirt, what do you think?”, my son took a look at the label, “too pricey!” then, pulled me along. “Do you need to be so honest? Use a better way to convey that to your girlfriend. My son stated, “What you have on looks way better.” I’d stated, “but I think this one looks pretty, it’s not quite the same as the styles of the clothes I have on”, seeing how I don’t want to leave, he’d stated, “You will look like my mother if you wear this piece!”, ahhh, such an awful child!
I took a turn into a purse shop, was about to critique the purse on the mannequin, but he’d grabbed the labels and skimmed it, told, “Can’t afford it!”, then, “didn’t you just buy a backpack sort of a bag awhile ago? You just need one, why would you need so many?”, holy, he spoke, just like his dad! I’m now, totally, worried about his road to love. “Actually, you can use your standardized answer of ‘it’s not as pretty as the one you have right now’! I’m thinking, that you will be going through, several girlfriends, because you will, soon get blacklisted by the girls you go out with………”
And by this time, he’d, tuned me out completely, patiently, he’d, pulled me back toward the way we came, “There’s no shops after this, let’s get supper! Besides, I don’t have time for girlfriend anyway!”
As his mother, I can only tell him, if you want to have and keep a girlfriend, your mother will be on-call to you 24/7, free consultations, don’t EVER go to your father for dating advices.
The “interning program” of shopping with girlfriend is finished, and I got to wrap my arms around my son’s arms for a whole hour, this, is such, a great deal!
So, this mother wanted her son to pay more attention to her, and so, she’d, come up with this idea, of having him pretend that she was his girlfriend, to take her out shopping, and, because this young lad is very practical, the mother couldn’t get anything out from him, but, she did, get the chance, of having her arms, wrapped around her son’s arms for an hour, so she still got exactly what she’d wanted.
Life, the Obstacle Course 