My daughter, Chinkee, says she wants to be a bus/bulldozer driver or have her own business. I’m not sure why she fancies being a bus or bulldozer driver but she is really fascinated with buses and construction machineries. I could still remember when she was three she bugged me to buy her a remote controlled excavator. After a couple of weeks of her campaigining for that toy, I got her one and boy! did she have some fun. When were also living in Cavite, there was a new subdivision being constructed beside our village and we used to take afternoon walks near there and she was always ecstatic whenever she sees those big equipments..
She also says if she cannot be a bus or bulldozer driver she will be a businesswoman. I think she’d be a natural at it. Especially now that she stays a lot with Hi-ace’s family. They are so entrepreneur-minded and I like exposing her to that. She also likes hearing her dad telling her stories about how he raised poultry and sold eggs in the market when he was young so he could have some money for school expenses. All their nephews and nieces are very much involved in their small businesses. Be it repacking for their grocery store, or tending the store during slow periods. We both agree that this is a great training ground for kids plus it also improves their social skills.
She also likes playing selling or what she calls ‘tindatindahan’. When we were staying in Bicol my father even made a little toy store for her. She then bugged us to buy her the complete toy store set with plastic shopping carts, mini POS systems etc. and she’d assign ‘customer’ roles to us.Till now she still plays like that alternating managing her ‘grocery store’ with her ‘little restaurant’.
It’s really fun watching her and at times joining in her play. The only problem sometimes is that she expects us to eat whatever she cooks in her ‘restaurant’..
