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I was tired and hungry after a long day of work.
When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son 1 up at me and said, “I love you.” I didn't know what to say. For several 2 all I could do was to 3 there and looked down at him. My first thought was that he must need 4 with his homework or he was trying to 5 me for some news.
Finally I asked, “What was that all about?”
“Nothing,” he said. “My teacher said we should 6 our parents that we love them and sees what they say. It's 7.”
The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this “experiment” and how the other parents had 8.
“Most of the fathers had the 9 reacting (反应) as you did,” the teacher said. “When I first 10 we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble. “The 11 is,” the teacher explained, “feeling loved is an important part of 12. It is something all people 13. What I'm trying to tell the children is that it's too 14 we don't all express those feeling. A boy is 15 to tell his dad he loves him.”
The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how 16 it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.
When my son came to me that evening, I held on to (抱着) him for17 second. And just before he 18 away, I said in my deepest, most manly (男子气概) voice, “Hey, I love you, too.”
I don't know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good (感觉很好). Maybe next time one of my children says “I love you”, it would take me a whole 19 to think of the right 20.
