Sunday, August 2, 2009

THE RUNAWAY STARLIT


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THE RUNAWAY STARLIT

My Character - Papa Spike, Mama Emma, Self-Starlit, sister Snowangel, Hamster Chico.

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In the forest of Wonder-wonder, there lives a bear family; there is Papa Spike, Mama Emma and little Starlit. Starlit was loved and pampered by both her parents; they treated her like a princess. Starlit has everything, like pretty dresses, many wonderful toys, beautiful bedroom painted with lovely rainbow colours, and even Papa Spike made for her a big soft bed by himself. Under the guidance ship and the shower love by the parents, she is very loveable, kind, considerate and humble, but it all changes after the addition member in the bear family.

After the birth of her little sister bear Snowangel, she is forced to share everything that she had with her. Her parents spend less time with her because of the demanding up bring of the Snowangel. Even now Starlit needs to do house chores and also to help to take care of her little sister when her parent is not free. When she refused to share thing especially the toys with Snowangel, Papa Spike and Mama Emma will scolded her and asked her not to be so selfish, and this made her feels sad and neglected and also that her parents no longer loved her. She also becomes bad temper and uncaring towards her sister due to her jealousy.

One day, while she was playing with her favourite doll Coco which her mother had made for her when she is still very small, her sister Snowangel came by and said to her, "Starlit I want Coco, I want to play with the Coco", and Starlit replied "No, Coco is my favourite doll, you are not to have it, go away and play with your own doll". After hearing that, Snowangel go running to mama bear, "Mama, mama, see Starlit do not let me play with her doll, she chased me away and scolded me she is so mean" and she wept. Mama Emma heard that and then called out for Starlit, and scolded her, “Starlit, how can you be so selfish and rude, I have said to you many times that all the toy in this house are to be shared by both of you, and that Snowangel is still small and you need to give in to her and not to scold her, do you understand”.

After being scolded by her mother, Starlit went into her room and cried, "Sob-sob, why should I need to share with my sister, don’t she has her own toys to play with, why must she take mine too. Nobody in this house listened to me and love me anymore, and I feels that I do not belong here anymore, why should I still stay here then, I might as well go from this house". She then planned to run away from home, tonight after everybody went to sleep and will go to Hamster Chico her new friend’s house. Chico and her family had just moved into the neighbourhood and become closed friend with Starlit.

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Chico lived with his parents and his six siblings at the bottom of an old big tree. She had told Chico everything that had happened and asked her whether is it ok if she stays in her house. Chico replied, “It is okay, you are always welcome to stay as long as you like.” When Starlit took the first step into Chico’s house, she was shocked, “Is this your house? It looked very different from my imagination but very interesting. By the way, where is the bedroom?” “ohhs….thanks Starlit come in, we will sleep together tonight.” Said Chico and pointing to a corner of the house. Chico’s family are not a well to do family, therefore they only a room tree house, which means that the room was used as the living room, dining as well as the bedroom.


In the room, 2 of Chico’s brothers are running around playing cowboy, 2 of the sisters are doing homework at the dining table, and 2 of the little ones are sleeping on the mat on the floor. “Where is your parents Chico?” Chico replied, “They are out finding foods, and I need to take care of my brothers and sisters, now you know why I can’t come and play with you when you invited me to your house, sorry ”. Suddenly, one of the sisters woke up and cried for milk, immediately, Chico run to the stove to prepare a bottle for her. Then one of the brothers who are playing cowboy fell down and crying aloud, and Chico quickly run to him and hugged him. Starlit can see the love that Chico have for her brothers and sister and felt ashamed of herself for not giving much love to Snowangel instead always find fault with her.

Chico’s parents are back during dinner time, and Chico helped her mother prepare the dinner with the food that they brought back from the forest. Dinner was served with simple food like fruits and vegetable, and this make Starlit long for her mother fresh bake muffin and honey too. After the dinner, Chico’s father said to Starlit, “You know you made your parents very worried about you without telling them where you are. Just now, I have send message to your parents that you are staying with us tonight. Tomorrow morning I will send you back, okay” Starlit nodded, infact she had already missed her family.

They slept on the floor that night which covers by only dry grasses and the floor which was hard and dirty, “Ouch, the dried grasses poke me, it was so uncomfortable and the floor is hard too, how I wish I am in my own room and in my soft bed”.
The next day, after thanking Chico and her family, Starlit started for home together with Chico’s father. When she saw her parents and Snowangel waiting anxiously on the porch. She then run towards them and hugged them, “Papa, Mama I am sorry” Her mother hugged her tightly, and cried, “Make sure you do not runaway anymore, you frighten me”.

Moral of the story, sometimes we do not treasure things that we have, until we have lost it.

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3 comments:

  1. Hi Melinda... great another story to our cooking pot. how do u feel when u write this story? any reflections? how did the story come about....

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  2. When I attended the 1st time playtherapy at BOLD, I was given a senerio similar to this which is parents are fond of the new born sister, always scold & cane, but I have refined the story-lah.

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  3. Personally I think it is too close to a potential realistic situation when the story effectiveness is about couching the themes obliquely and less literally. The moral of the story is very much from an adults perspective reflecting adult values...... how the character should be a 'good girl' and require of the child to understand, be appreciative or be thankful to the adults for being materially better off. How could it address the same scenario from the child's perspective, i.e. his feelings and his world view? How would a child feel being labelled as selfish, rude, being caned and punished for wanting to have of her own sense of identity being affirmed? Maybe we need a story for the adults in enabling parents to have a better understanding of child psychology.

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