Our writers share their personal customs and household habits from eggy breakfasts to opera, learning lines and planting seeds
I doubt any reality TV concept was conceived as a mother-child bonding tradition, but that’s how it’s worked out for me and my two daughters. From their teen years and roaming through their 20s, our reality-TV viewing has become ritualised: watch the shows , discuss the contestants, gossip, preach, speculate, and feel regretful and slightly unclean. Hey, I didn’t say it was edifying, just that it was happening.
As much as these shows are entertainment, they’re also about human nature, connections, life. As for “teaching moments”, it’s not about my daughters listening to me, rather that the conversations exist at all. Lowbrow it may be, but it’s also low-risk , opening up topics that may otherwise float dangerously out of reach. Watching these shows, I feel I know my daughters better, and that they know more too.
Now she’s studying in another city. But when she is home, I sometimes hear the comforting noises of her making herself breakfast . The gentle sound of shells cracking and cold egg hitting warm butter in a pan and I feel that all is well. I am hoping this tradition can be revived with my grandchildren when they arrive. I’ll keep practising, just in case.
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