As a pediatrician（儿科医生） and host of a parenting program， I come across a lot of parenting stories. Few stories have ever inspired me so much that it left me 1 myself I'd strive to be better tomorrow, 2 this one.
Listen, son; I am saying this as you lie3 There are things I was thinking: I had been cross with you. I scolded you as you 4 wiped your face with a towel in the morning. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I5 angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor.
6 , you wolfed down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You7 butter too thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you waved goodbye and I frowned, "Look at your posture（姿势）．Hold your8 back！"
Then it began9 in the late afternoon. As I came up the road, I spied you, 10 on your knees, playing marbles（弹球）．There were 11 in your socks．I humiliated（使丢脸）you before your friends by12 you to the house. "Socks are expensive. And if you had to —13 them you would be more careful! "
Remember later; when I was reading in the study, you came in 14 , with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? Glancing up over my15 , I was impatient at the interruption. You ran up, threw your arms around my neck tightly and kissed me, with such a deep 16 .
Well, son, Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have17 there, ashamed!
Think of how often we want our kids to be18 . We keep an eye out for their every tiny error to teach them. But if we, who are adults are allowed to make mistakes, to learn and19 , then remember to20 your children by their own yardstick（标注）.
