A Tale of Bub and the Catboy

The little Bub has been asking us to get him the Catboy character from PJ Mask recently. We have two cats at home, so it is not surprising that he is interested in this particular character.

He does not usually ask us to buy toys for him so we thought that we would eventually get him a figurine of the Catboy character for him if he did well at his swimming lessons. So last weekend, we eventually relented and got him the Catboy that he has been begging for the longest time and he was really really pleased with it. He was lugging it EVERYWHERE he went and was basically inseparable from the toy for the ENTIRE WEEKEND.

We took a cab home on Sunday evening and he was still insisting of holding his new favourite toy in his tiny hands. Worried that he might drop it, we kindly suggested for him to put it into his backpack but he flatly refused our kind intentions and rejected our lousy idea. 🙁

When we reach our destination, Bub was excited to ask the cab driver for the reciept and alighted the cab with Mama Lim without much thought. However, he had left his beloved Catboy on the backseat and I decided to teach him a little lesson.

When we reached the lift landing, I asked Bub if he has his Catboy with him. He realised to his horror that it is neither in his hands nor in his backpack and his gobbly eyes started welling up with tears.

Mama Lim and I calmly asked him if he remembered where he last saw it and he recalled that he left it on the backseat on the cab. It was hard to keep a straight face but we wanted Bub to learn from his mistakes and to take responsibility for his belongings.

The Catboy was a toy that he longed for quite an extended period of time and it must have been heartwrenching for him to lose it within a weekend. So we made him promise to take good care of his toys before we eventually surprised him by returning him the Catboy when we reached the gates of our home.

It was a short but effective lesson for Bub and since that day, he has shown an increased effort to ensure that his toys are responsibly accounted for when he plays with them.