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Parenting in early childhood may seem blissful, but as your kid starts growing up you may realize that it’s not an easy task. At a certain stage, your child may even stop listening to you. But is it just the way he is or is there something that happened earlier made him behave in this way?

Miserably sitting on her sumptuous couch while leaning her head on her hand’s palm, Maria recollected her past. What went wrong? This question was constantly running through her mind. Ignoring all her worries for over many years, this troublesome night that just arrived today finally made her ponder on this question.

The clamorous shout of her son muffled her mind for many seconds and was still revolving around her head. She knew it wasn’t for the first time but this time it was a lot embarrassing as her elite friendship circle got entertained by it. Why didn’t I stop him? She thought to herself but she realized that it was too late for it.

She was regretting on her son’s behavior meanwhile she was also angry on that small kid who came to her grand dinner today and broke her imported glass flask. She distastefully remembered that small kid belonged to the same league of her distant underprivileged relatives whom she was unexcited to invite but did due to her husband’s insistence. She recalled that her son was never rude with any of her guests before but as he was trained to disregard his housemaids so he mistook that kid as their child. But this was merely his incorrect assumption that went wrong, not really a big thing but it did cost her a great loss of reputation, she thought while feeling anguish.

She was muddled in her thoughts when she eventually laid her eyes on the beautifully flowing exorbitant curtains of her room’s extensive windows that she just bought. She recollected that how she used to furnish her home every year with new decorations solely for this grand dinner but now she was uncertain about it. The pleasant time of her son’s summer vacations flashed before her eyes when he was used to accompanying her on the foreign tours to get the perks of traveling and her mom’s  endless shopping expeditions.

A slight smile appeared on her face as she recalled that how her son as a kid was used to memorize wholeheartedly, the numeral digits written on the price tags of all the imported stuff. Then he used to brag about all those things in front of his friends. Maria’s smile quickly changed into a frown. Maybe this thing brought her son to the point where he started valuing things over the people, this thought rushed into her mind. But she brushed it off thinking that it was all about just a poor small kid.

Though she wanted to dismiss all the worrisome thoughts still her mind urge to ponder on this distressing situation. She realized that her son being a mature adult could have controlled his anger and himself from brutally behaving with that five-year-old kid. That lead to screaming and crying of the kid, adding more to her shame. Maria surprisingly finally realized that how insensitively his son overlooked that small kid’s pain.

She knew her son wasn’t always like that but as she recalled the old times of his son’s childhood she realized that serving every desire of her child and ignoring his every mischief made him believe that he is always right. That belief made him self-centered, limiting his concerns only to his own wishes and feelings.She remembered that how he gradually started shrugging off other’s emotions and desires to fulfill his own or sometimes even just to cover up his own blunders.

Now, Maria finally understood that this wasn’t just an incident of a small kid, involving her son. But actually, a serious wake-up call for her as a parent. But she just realized that it was too late. Now her son was too old to listen and adapt anything new or to even give space to someone else’s feelings into his life. Now she could only regret.

Regret, the time that she wasted on furnishing her lavish home and growing her elite social circle that cost her so much on the way. But in just a day it all shattered before her eyes, the reputation and the status that she wanted to maintain of herself by all those material things. But meanwhile, she forgot about focusing on her child’s upbringing that would have of course cost her lesser and today she also realized that it was more important.