I’m Wei Wei’s godmother, and I really adore him since he’s a baby. He’s very prone to accidents since young, like falling off the high chair, broke his nose, had a deep cut on his forehead, and the most serious one is having a femur fracture. Most of these accidents happenned with adults around to supervise him, but he’s really fast and tends to get hurt in a blink of eye.

My mom said it’s the parents’ fault as they are really “pan sim”, can just let him act freely so that he won’t throw tantrums. My mom has always heard about his “tales”, but never seen one until she’s here with me for a week. We went out for dinner and while the whole family is busy eating, he and his sister were running around the table and refused to sit down. His mom doesn’t really care if they would like to eat a proper meal outside, normally they’ll have only fries, and after a few bites, they’re as free as birds.

So my mom was very annoyed because there’re a few times when the waitresses had to avoid dropping the tray on Wei Wei. She didn’t say anything that night, but was wondering why his parents could still have their meals unaffected. Then, when my dad brought Justin out for a walk when we’d almost done, Wei Wei just rushed out of the restaurant to the road. Luckily the gentleman sitting outside grabbed his arm and he was not hit by cars. The funniest thing is the parents were sitting there and watched. Gosh, my mom was really mad that time, and she couldn’t stop complaining about Wei Wei and his parents.

Things like this happen most of the time, and I’m rather “numb” to it. I used to raise my opinions, but they’re still the same. I can’t see kids doing dangerous act, and that’s why my MIL asked hubby and I to be Wei Wei’s godparents, so there’re another mom and dad to dicipline him.

Now that I have Justin, I admit that I spent less time with Wei Wei and he’s on full day at the nursery. I only see him in the evening and at night. Since both parents are working, they tends to fulfill his demands whenever possible. I would say he’s rather spoilt. Whenever he does something wrong, he’ll just say sorry and get away with it.

The day before, he accidentally kicked my MIL’s eye when she’s trying to undress him for his bath. He’s jumping up and down as he’s really excited about playing with water. MIL scolded him, but he just said sorry and that’s it, continued playing in the bathroom. I was so mad and lectured him about how badly my MIL’s eye can be. I even reminded him that once he misplaced his toy and my MIL tripped over it and broke her wrist. I wanted to let him know that certain actions may endanger other people. I hope he can understand as he’s about to be 4 years old.

Yesterday, he ran towards the door and accidentally kicked Justin who’s sitting on the floor. He kicked on Justin’s right cheek and luckily my maid managed to hold his head before he’s hitting on the floor. Again, he just said sorry and smiled like nothing happenned. Justin was crying like hell and probably from the kick, he vomitted his dinner. I was worried about concussion, but after 24 hours monitoring, I think Justin is doing fine.

Had tried to talk to him again. I’m wondering if he’s still too young to understand about consequences. Of coz, I can just complain to his parents but I know they’ll either just scold him or do nothing about it.

I know hubby will scold him when he’s back, but I think scolding is rather useless. I’m rather lost about my role as a godmom, I don’t think I can do anything to dicipline him.

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