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China manufactures most of the world’s everything, including
the world’s cutest babies. That’s why one of the first (and only) Chinese
phrases I have mastered is “hunker eye, meaning cute baby. Unless of course,
you say it to a dog in which it would mean, “Well behaved”.
Jeff and I were trying to figure out why Chinese babies are
so cute. Answer? They feel secure!
They
bond to their mother and keep in close contact to her, whether they are tied on
her back or strapped in a basket. They
feel safe and secure in a crowd…
Even when they have a bad hair cut.
But in America—what do we do with our precious babies? We place
them in strollers, in which these infants blaze through oncoming traffic without
their parents in site, who are sipping Starbucks behind them. Not only can’t
touch their parents—they can’t even see them! All they can view from stroller height
are wet noses of dogs, baggy jeans of teens and large McLegs rubbing together.
And we wonder why they all have Marty Feldman eyes.
If the Chinese manufacture baby strollers, they do not use
them. The handful I’ve seen in Kunming over the past 18 months were being
pushed by westerners.
Chinese Daycare
In China, toddlers for the most part stay with their parents
at work. They spend their day playing hide and seek behind baskets of nuts…
guarding baskets of
gigantic bullfrogs from hungry dogs and giggling with friends next to their
parents’ shops.
Or, they figure out how to amuse themselves using more than their thumbs and a WiFi connection.
Whatever the reason Chinese babies are happy, they make me
smile, too.
January 31st, 2012 at 4:56 pm love this.