Developing multiple futures

One afternoon, I was sitting across a table from my two daughters. My two-year-old was eating her snack: a chocolate wafer. After putting it in her mouth, she got hold of her green plastic cup and reached for something in it. When she opened her hand, there was a small piece of ice. She then slowly brought her palm toward her mouth. I saw excitement in her eyes as her palm came closer. But as she was about to eat the ice, her palm slightly tilted, causing the ice to slip and fall to the floor.

My six-year-old would have done better in eating that ice, because I am pretty sure a similar incident also happened to her before. Speaking of her, there was a time she was busy arranging our fruit basket. I saw pomelos, star apples and bananas, though there was something weird in the basket: the bananas were scattered. I knew immediately that the move was not a good idea. True enough, within hours, we had to consume around 10 bananas that afternoon, or else they would be overripe.