I worked as a babysitter for a family of four. I’ve been with them twice a week for weeks, but I haven’t seen the father yet. When I met him, I realized how much his four-year-old son resembles him in behavior, movements, and gestures.

One winter day, when it was snowing, we went out into the garden to build a snowman. The children didn’t want to make a big deal, they wanted us to build a snow family instead. We started, first I helped the little girl, the little boy watched her for a while, then left us. He went to the other corner of the garden, I thought, then he will come back and we will continue together. We had already completed the mother snowman and the two small child snowmen. The little girl kneaded a snow table, chairs, picked leaves from under the snow for the table, – food. We called the little boy, come help us, at least let’s knead the father snowman together. He said he would come soon. He walked over to us, looked at the family, he really liked it. I then said that we should build dad now, because he is the only thing missing. He replied that he was ready. He took us by the hand, pulled us to the far corner of the garden and showed us the father snowman. He was sitting there on a snow chair in front of a snow desk, alone, hidden. I asked why you built it here? He replied that it was because father was in his office. The little girl wasn’t surprised either, we understood the little boy’s point of view.

Then the parents came home. The mother arrived first. I asked her to go out into the garden and look at the snow family, find all its members.She went out, found it, looked at it, then came in crying. Then the father arrived, and we asked him to do the same. He did it too, then came in and told us that no matter what we want to say, someone has to work. Then he sat down in front of his machine.

Do you need a lesson?