SEC-S11W1:"The most embarrassing moment of my life as a kid or parent"

A few days gap in steemit engagement contest seems like ages. Great to see that we are back again in steemit engagement contest. This time around stronger and better.

I also believe we all have the best of the weekend and are well poised to show our good contents this week.

We all have experienced times when we feel certain things never happened, which made us to be embarrassed and totally ashamed of ourselves.

The contest I will be starting off with this week is just about that. The title is The most embarrassing moment of my life as a kid or parent.

Many of us have had embarrassing moments in our lives and it would be pertinent to share some of them here. It. might be funny now, but then it was not. Okay let us hop straight to the destination.

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Have you ever been embarrassed? tell us the scenario and how you felt.

Being embarrassed is just like making mistakes. It is simply not totally avoidable since some factors beyond your control comes into play.

As a mother, I have had my own chunk of it as well. But the one that readily and always comes to my mind was an incident that happened with my daughter.

	just at this age. A year plus. See her innocent face

I did exclusive breastfeeding for my kids starting with my daughter. After 6 months, she refused to eat foods meant for the kids including pap which was one of those foods that kids take along with baby milk. Anything you force her to eat, will just be like pouring water on a stone as she will give them back to you in form of vomit.

I tried every form of food for her including the ones suggested by our family pediatrician. She refused them all. Finally, she accepted eating ice fish in a vegetable soup with a little ball of garri. As time went by, she accepted tea in a feeding bottle. I was very happy to see her accept these things. We made these things available for her in quantum. I go to anywhere with especially tea in her feeding bottle.

Because she was not always satisfied with the little opening of the feeder and so she will use her teeth to bore more holes on it so that it will be coming out in great quantities.

To crown it all, she will always use one hand to hold the feeding bottle and the other hand will be at her navel. She will just seat at a place or stand still until she had emptied the bottle. But an incidence happened that embarrassed me.

She was just about 1 year plus, when this happened. She was so much in love with tea. If you want her to stay quiet, just prepare the tea, fill her feeding bottle and hand it over to her. She will just quietly sit, use one hand to hold on to feeding bottle, then use the other hand to hold on to her navel, rubbing it as she drink.

Whenever we are going for Bible study and meetings we will fill her bottle with tea and go with it. This will make her to sit down quietly and listen.

But an incident happened in one of our meetings that totally put me off and got me seriously embarrassed.

While at our Bible study meetings, she was drinking and suddenly, the bottle fell off her hand to the floor. The tea poured away and splashed on my cloth, her cloth and others sitting near by. I felt so embarrassed, since it distracted so many persons attention from the talk being delivered.

From that day, we put a stop to that. We never went to bible meetings with tea again, and she never disturbed henceforth.

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Do you think you deserve the embarrassment or it should have been someone else?

_@ngoenyi

No one deserves to be embarrassed. Neither I nor any other person. I will not even wish that for those who do not love me.

It something that just happens and there is nothing you can do.

The fact is that, embarrassment is not usually planned and when it happens, it brings about the feelings of unworthiness and low self-esteem. Just imagine how I felt at the moment. Just imagine the eyes that were on me, just imagine how members were distracted from the spiritual food that was going on, just imagine the work I gave to the attendants the ln to mop and clean the whole place, you can now imagine how embarrassed I was, not so? It wasn't funny at all. I have to render countless apologies to everyone, though so.e in attendance sympathized with me. Being a mother is not easy at all my dear ones.

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What have you done to avoid such a scenario from reoccurring?

Like I stated earlier, the day that incident happened was the last day we ever went to bible meetings with tea for my daughter. And it was as if she understood the gravity of what happened. She never disturbed any any meeting again for the yea and she will just keep quiet, praying for the meeting to be over so she can go and have her tea at home because we were living close to the kingdom hall then.

That was enough to avoid such scenario from reoccurring. When we also had our second child, we entirely avoided that practice, but rather looked for another way to ensure he stayed quiet during bible meetings.

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Conclusion

Embarrassing moments happens frequently. However, when it happens, we just have to forget the effect, learn from it and move with our lives.

Have you had an embarrassing moment @irawandedy, @eliany and @disconnect? Please share with us following the contest tips here. It will be fun to read. Good luck to you all!

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