During family time, nothing was off-limits and we would share what was on our minds.
SINGAPORE – In a recent lPS survey of 2,000 people, family ranks the most important to Singaporeans, ahead of personal health and financial stability.
During the weekend, we visited the in-laws and places of interests. Or we would go shopping or catch a movie. Two to three times a year, we travelled overseas with our extended families. At the start of 2024, we came together and decided to be more intentional with doing things as a family. We believe that this would help us from taking one another for granted.
The rule was that no experience was too trivial or insignificant. We would not judge, criticise, make fun or stay silent. As we did not want to be tied to a strict routine, we would sometimes change things up by, say, going for a stroll by the park during family time.Our three children are introverts. They are rather quiet at home, each of them doing his or her own thing. They got that from me.
It is said that a family that prays together, stays together. In our case, it is a family that cries together that rises together. In one night of sharing, we woke up to the years of inadvertent oversight. In our busyness, we had taken one another for granted. This realisation was empowering and, at the same time, humbling. We then acknowledged our trespasses and offered unqualified apologies.
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