'Playback' - starred by Starrie

One late afternoon after school, Starrie just finished Ice Age 3 at home. She happily ran up to me and said she wanted to play 'Mommy/Daddy'. Curious what that was - she explained it was a game to pretend to be Mommy/Daddy. So, she started setting up her workstation which consisted a toy laptop (a wonderful edutainment gift from cousins), 2 story books, and her Hello Kitty mobile phone...

Starrie: (Happily typing on her laptop) 'Hurry up! You are still taking your own sweet time... I am going to be late for work!'

[Now, that really caught my attention... I went on to observe what she would do next...]

Starrie: (Some more typing on the laptop) 'You are talking so loudly. Be quiet! How am I going to do my work like this?

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Oh my! It was a moment of awakening for me! This is what Starrie thought work is all about... Although she uttered all these in a fun, playful, innocent way, these are exactly how I've talked to her before! It's an exact playback of how I prodded her to hurry and quieten down in the name of work.

This is really setting me thinking...