short series

Don't Yell—Baby's Afraid

share time: 2025-10-08 02:30:40

Su Xiao, a top workplace planner, struggles daily between clients and proposals, her pent-up frustration from high pressure always spilling over at home. The day she’s scolded by a client, she returns to find her 5-year-old son has torn her crucial printed documents to shreds—she explodes, shouting, “What on earth are you doing?!” The boy huddles in the sofa corner, clutching half a handmade card, sobbing: “Mom, don’t yell… I just wanted to slip the card you left on the table into your files…” Su Xiao freezes: her son had secretly made a “Mom Don’t Be Angry” card to surprise her, but accidentally ruined the documents. Wracked with guilt, she forces herself to “hug her son for ten minutes first after work.” Yet when she stumbles home at midnight after overtime, she finds warm milk and a note from her son: “Drink the milk before scolding me, Mom—I’ll wait.” She finally understands: those uncontrolled “yells” had already left tiny scars on her child’s heart, and the key to healing was laying down her “workplace armor” and finding the patience to squat down and listen to her child…

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