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“Breakfast’s on!” Mom called. I put on my sweater. My blue jeans had holes on the knees, like badges(徽章) of courage. My shirt was red. My socks were white and my shoes were black. My mom was color-blind, and my dad had no idea what was fashion. So I was all right.

It’s funny, sometimes, when you look at the people who brought you into this world and you see yourself so clearly in them. You realize that every person in the world is a compromise(妥协) of nature. I had my mother’s small-boned frame and her dark brown hair, but my father had given me his blue eyes and his sharp-bridged nose.

Sometimes I got nervous talking to people so I stayed quiet. In my fantasies, though, I walked along with the cowboys and detectives who parade past us on the television, and out in the woods that came up behind our house.

One thing I do know I got from my grandpa Jaybird, his curiosity about the world. Although he was seventy-six years old, he brought home things that made Grandma Sarah often shout, snake-skins and animals he’d found dead. One time he hung up a dead toad(蟾蜍) from a tree and invited me to watch the flies eat it. Maybe he was crazy. Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who’s got magic in them after they’re no longer a child.

On that morning before the sun, as I sat eating my breakfast with Dad and Mom in our house, the year was 1964. All I knew at that moment was that I needed another glass of orange juice.

So when breakfast was over and the dishes were cleared, after I had gone out into the cold to say good morning to Rebel and feed him. Mom kissed both Dad and me, I put on my jacket and got my schoolbooks and we went off in the old truck.     

And there was Zephyr town before us, the town quiet in its dreaming, the moon in the sky.

The government is working to encourage larger families. To provide nursery(托儿所) care services has become the latest focal point in China’s push to raise the birthrate, according to official documents and experts.

Song Jian, deputy director of the Population Development Studies Centre at Renmin University of China in Beijing, said last year’s work report mainly pointed out the importance of the need to adjust(调整) family planning policies and make them more complete, while the 2022 report laid out real measures(措施). “The next step is to ensure implementation(落实),” Song said. “Developing nursery care services is an important measure to provide service support. It can help solve the problem of who looks after the kids before the baby reaches the age to get into a kindergarten.”

Nursery care services are widely considered to be a useful way of helping to raise the birthrate. That’s because such services can help women to achieve a balance between career and family, according to Wang Gewei and Zhao Yaohui, researchers at Peking University in Beijing. “Although high-income families can afford to hire nannies(保姆) or ask grandparents to look after the kids so the parents can return to the workplace, low-income families may not be able to do so because they cannot afford nannies, and the grandparents cannot give up their work to care for the kids.” they wrote in an article published in the journal Fudan Finance Review in January. The authors said providing high-quality, affordable nursery care services is the key to reducing or preventing the disadvantages that women face once they become mothers, such as being paid less because they work fewer hours.

However, lots of parents find it really difficult to find a suitable nursery care centre. A nursery worker Casey in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, said the Child Care Centre she works for costs about 2,500 yuan ($395) per baby per month. “Nearly all the parents are requiring us to adjust the price.” she said. As a frontline worker, she said that it is necessary for the Centre to be considerate and meet reasonable needs from parents. “For example, even though the official opening hour for the centre is around 8:30 a.m., parents can drop their kids off earlier, at 7:50 a.m., so they can go straight to work afterwards,” she said, “Besides, we have both traditional Chinese nursery care methods and Montessori education—a system developed by an Italian physician, so their children will receive good-quality care, and they will see rapid improvements in their children’s habits and cognitive(认知) skills.”