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Pinkxi is a dreamy lil critter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n BBM turns all cranky whenever Pinkxi takes her time to change her clothes, eat her meals and get her share of house chores done, amongst other things. Sometimes, BBM\u2019s instructions to her pops up between her play\/reading time and it\u2019d take awhile for BBM to expect a \u2018calibrated\u2019 response. Other times, Pinkxi simply tunes out and BBM\u2019s got to fish her back from a distant galaxy. BBM had since gotten into a habit of addressing Pinkxi as \u201cSlowwy\u201d whenever she fell short of his expected response time.<\/span><\/p>\n Yesterday during dinner, BBM caught her tuning out after a couple of bites and he started calling out to \u201cSlowwy\u201d. Usually, \u201cSlowwy\u201d gets on with her meal, albeit finishing it on her own pace (well, at least she tries to finish the portion on her plate). But this time it was different. Pinkxi turned to BBM and asked in earnest if he could stop addressing her that because she \u201creally doesn\u2019t like it\u201d, before chomping down the rest of her dinner.<\/p>\n It then dawned upon BBM that what he\u2019d perceived as an innocuous label, may carry a whole lot of stigma to a 5 year old. In this sense, \u201cSlowwy\u201d is probably just as bad as \u201cdumb\u201d or \u201clazy\u201d or a whole lot of negatives that shouldn\u2019t be associated with lil critters. Perhaps it\u2019s even detrimental to BBM\u2019s continuing effort in getting her to \u2018speed things up\u2019. Certainly the last thing BBM wants is to have her feel defeated for whatever little tasks she\u2019s to come across.<\/p>\n Later that evening, BBM sat Pinkxi down and apologised. She asked if BBM would promise not to call her \u201cSlowwy\u201d again.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, Papa promise!\u201d BBM boomed.<\/p>\n \u201cFor real?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEh yah\u2026.but you must also promise to try your best to speed things up a little ok?\u201d<\/p>\n Pinkxi grinned and cuddled up.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n