While throwing away the uneaten contents of the lunch box, every mother lectures their child (a hundred times) about the poor, starving children around us who could have satisfied their hunger at least once, with this food that was being wasted now.
However many times they hear it, the kids forget it within minutes. They will not understand until they are old enough to understand.
And if they have to understand when they are old enough to understand, they should waste their food several times in their childhood and their mothers must drill the lesson in a hundred times before they are ready to understand.
No easy parenting tips, please. I am learning things the hard way and am perfectly content to understand when I am ready to understand.
Good one! Yet having an older sibling to drill this into the head gives faster results! 🙂 I effectively learnt not 2 waste since like class 1 from my siblings! 😀
That's a good way to learn, too! 🙂