Developing courage...with the crawlies

There was a dead cockroach in the kitchen, a result of the fumigation exercise at the void deck of my apartment. I waited for my DH to remove it. I just couldn't imagine it wiggling away if I were to pick it up.

Yesterday, my 4-year-old son took a piece of tissue paper, intending to throw the carcass and asked, "Can I pick up the cockroach?"

I thought, if I say no, the implication may be undesirable. So I said, `Yes'.

He picked it up with the tissue paper carefully, without any disgusted expression and threw it in the dustbin.

Actually, even his 2-year-old sister did it a few weeks back but with a smaller insect.

So who's the one who needs Courage Lessons?