I did not pay any attention to anything but fun when I was a child reading children stories. I knew all along that these stories were created by adults mainly for entertaining children.

It is not until I was reading them to my children did I realize some life-benefit moral lessons embodied in these stories. Yesterday afternoon I dropped my daughter at the book store after school. I gave her a personal pan pizza as her dinner and a Border gift card for her to get some drink. When I went to fetch her for evening skating, she asked me to buy her some drink. It turned out she bought herself a toy and two drinks. Having realized she spent more than she should and knew how displeased that I was, she was full of apology.

“I hope you will feel the sting of conscience for being so wasteful when you are aware of so many children who are under horrible living conditions.” She has seen the pictures and learned that children in some part of China are still very much deprived in their daily necessities. “I hope you will not waste like this so that you can make some contribution to help those unfortunate children,” said I.

“Compare to those unfortunate children, you are like growing up in a honey jar. But always remember not to indulge yourself or abuse your privilege or it will be taken away from you like what happened in children’s story. Remember the tale of a Fish man and his greedy wife?” She understands it and as always makes promise not to let it happen again. I am happy with her promise so far. Enjoy the weekend!