Grand Prize🏆 "One day, I started biting my nails..."

Winner of the "Suki" award in the Manazashi Photo Club's third-term photo contest
One day, he started biting his nails, waking up crying in the middle of the night, and becoming more clingy than usual... I often wondered if it was just my son's behavior.

I was worried that maybe I wasn't being loved enough...
"Are you lonely? Are you okay?" I asked.

"Don't worry! I have you, Mommy and Daddy, so you won't be lonely!"
He said,

I remember bursting into tears, shocked that a child just over two years old could say something like that, and relieved that our feelings had reached him. My tear ducts are getting weaker with every passing year.


"I love you so much, Mom and Dad!"
Those magic words that you say many times a day.
We love you too.
I'll continue to share more with you.
Thank you for being born.


Photo and caption: Manami



Comment from Advisor

This photo conveys all that the father and mother love, the mother loves her child, and that this moment was taken because they love each other so much. It seems that the caption conveys that it is at this very moment that they are saying, "I love you, Mom and Dad!" And somehow it feels like the mother and father are holding their hands close together, and I find this moment of "love" endearing.

Comment: Etsuko Aibu (Advisor of the Manazashi Photo Club)


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