We were having breakfast at a regular eatery when a young and pretty woman greeted us. She happened to be one of our Y3K's reader.

After the meal, we bade bye-bye to that couple and their cute child. Looking at them, it brought back nostalgic memories of us being young parents. Well, becoming parents for the first time can be a rewarding experience but it can bring along a lot of anguish moments too.

The arrival of a child is a joyful anticipation. For a toddler, his parents are his protectors and the role of parents come in stages of caring, providing food and shelter and laying the foundations for emotional security. Of course, there will be extra to cover on behaviour and education plus family relationship. Our parents had gone through all the pressures of parenthood and we now understand their concerns as we are now engaged in the same thoughts of our children.

From birth of our eldest son until end of his adolescence, we have a relationship based on respect and trust. We just wanted him to be happy and he chose a course on Multimedia Design at a college around the Sunway suburb, as our boy enjoyed doing things on the computer.

He will be graduating this year-end and felt rather proud that he was picked as a role-model student (Student Limelight) as his computer game was posted in the college's website, chosen among the many. That made us proud too.

He may have come of age at 21 but as parents, we still worry about his future and how well he plays his role in the working society. These are probably the same emotional upheavals and stress of many other parents.