一年一度的母親節又快到了,孝子們又在苦惱要送什麼禮物了嗎?日前,外國論壇Reddit有網民問媽媽們在母親節真實想得到什麼禮物,媽媽網友的回覆友的回覆令人意外之餘,也讓大家明白當媽媽的辛酸。
1. I want a call from my kid in which he says ‘I love you’ first, not just after I say it.
(我想收到孩子的電話,而他會主動說我愛你,而不是我說了之後才回說。)
2. “Just a day where I get home from work, they’ve done their chores and they aren’t bickering over nothing.”
(「我只想有一天回家時,家人有做好家務而且沒有人在吵架。」)
3. “To not have to hide in the bathroom to eat ice cream or sweets by myself. My 3-year-old can hear the wrapper on a Klondike bar from a mile away.”
(「我想不用躲在洗手間裡吃冰淇淋或糖果,我三歲的小孩一公里以外都能聽到包裝紙的聲音。」)
4. “I’d really just be excited to get uninterrupted sleep for a night.”
(「如果有一晚不受打擾的睡眠,我會很興奮。」)
5. “Just to feel like I’m appreciated. Maybe a simple, ‘Thank you for always doing this,’ or ‘Thank you for being there when this happened.”
(「一句簡單的感謝,例如『謝謝你做這個』或『謝謝你在我身邊』。」)
6. “I just want one day to be ME — not ‘Mom,’ ‘Wife,’ ‘Daughter,’ or ‘Employee.’ Every single day is spent taking care of someone else, operating on their schedule, and fulfilling their needs. ”
(我只想當一天『我』,不是媽媽、妻子、女兒或員工。每一天都在照顧別人,安排他們的日程,滿足他們的需要。)
7. “I want a picture of my son and me. I’m a single mom, so all of our pictures are selfies, and I would love for someone to offer to take our picture instead.”
(「我想有張我和兒子的合照,我是個單親媽媽所以我們的照片都是自拍照,如果有人幫我們兩人拍照就好了。」)
8. “Champagne. Someone to come deep clean my house. Someone to cook me dinner while I sit on the couch with a drink.”
(「香檳。另外有人幫我大掃除房子,然後有人幫我煮晚餐,而我只在沙發喝一杯。」)
9. “To not be bombarded with a million questions, the majority of which are, ‘Why?'”
(「不被問題轟炸一天,而大部分的問題是『為什麼?』」)
10. “An hour or two of total and complete silence.”
(「一至兩小時的靈靜,完全的。」)
11. “A goddamn nap. I have 2 under 3 and the little beasts never sleep. I’m perpetually exhausted.”
(「一個好好的午覺,我兩個小孩都不足三歲而且從來不睡覺,我永無止境地感到疲累。」)
12. I don’t want to have to plan my Mother’s Day. I’ll take damn near anything so long as I have nothing to do with making it happen!
(做什麼也好,只要我不需要做任何事前功夫,我不希望由我來計劃母親節的節目)
13. I just want time with my kids (busy adults). And it looks like that’s gonna happen. She lives and works four hours away and her brother is a new-ish dad, with his new-ish business and an old professional fishing habit that doesn’t always make room for Mother’s Day. So we may celebrate according to our own calendars. And that’s fine with me.
(「我只想和我已成年(而且很忙)的孩子聚在一起,我的女兒住很遠,我的兒子剛創業,我們可能不能在母親節當天慶祝,不過能一起就滿足了。」)
原來媽媽們心聲跟我們想的不太一樣,亦令我們了解到當媽媽的工作有多繁重多累人,畢竟當媽媽是一個沒有下班時間,也經常被看作理想當然的終身職業。
當然出外晚餐、鮮花、首飾等禮物一定不會出錯,但她們更需要我們的陪伴與感激,今年的母親節,除了打卡讓別人知道你有多孝順之外,多考慮媽媽們真正的需要,也不要吝嗇一句謝謝吧。
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