‘I want to give her the best’: kindergarten boy’s confession after taking mother’s US$1,500 gold bangle for girl at school delights Chinese social media
- The boy’s mother received a call from her son’s kindergarten warning her to ‘watch out’ after he was caught by a teacher with her bangle
- The mother responds with amusement in a viral video of an exchange with her son after knowing why he took the bangle
A young boy in China who took a gold bangle belonging to his mother to give to a girl at his kindergarten has amused mainland Chinese social media after a video of his confession went viral.
The boy’s mother said his teacher warned her to “watch out” for her jewellery after her son was caught with the jewellery at his kindergarten in northern China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, news portal Red Star News reported.
“I was completely stunned,” the mother said in a video she shared online.
The gold bangle, valued at 10,000 yuan (US$1,500), was a gift from the boy’s father to his mother.
When the mother asked the boy why he took the bangle, he said he wanted to give it as a gift to a girl he is friends with at his kindergarten.
“So if the teacher had not caught you with the bangle, you would secretly have given it away?” the mother asked.
“Don’t you know it is one of my belongings? Your father bought it for me,” she added.
“I don’t care. I just want to give her the best,” replied the boy, causing his mother to laugh and say: “Oh, my God!”
She later joked in a post on Douyin that she needed to “learn to swim soon” as a metaphor for her son growing up fast and leaving his mother for a girl and joked that if she and her future daughter-in-law were both drowning at the same time, her son would save his wife first.
Chinese mothers often use the famous hypothetical question - “Who will you save from drowning first, your mother or your wife?” to playfully test their son’s filial piety.
The story has amused many people on mainland social media.
“His response - ‘I just want to give her the best’ - is so powerful. This boy has defeated millions of adult men with this sentence, haha,” one person commented on Weibo.
“I can tell this boy has a ‘love brain’ (a Chinese term for a person fixated on romance),” joked another person.
Stories about unusual or cute behaviour among children often trend on mainland social media.
Earlier this month, two six-year-old boys in northwest China delighted internet users by asking police officers to put their toy handcuffs around their wrists for a “fully authentic experience”.
Last year, a 12-year-old boy in northeastern China made the news after a tearful meltdown in frustration with his younger sister’s stubbornness when trying to help her solve a maths problem.
