Children can understand a ‘lesson’ better when they get to ‘see’ the rude fact staring back at them.

Remember the method I used to make my boys realised how too-much-TV-watching can spoil their eyes?

Seeing is more convincing than just words for the young minds.

When I saw these photos in my mailbox, I asked them over to have a look. The pictures speak for itself.

Me: “Babies, can you see these children or people are so skinny and some of them are dying because they do not have food to eat and water to drink? We are very fortunate. We have potato chips to eat (they happened to be eating it at that moment), but they don’t even have proper food to eat. So what do all these pictures tell you?”

Keatkeat: “Cannot waste food. Must finish all our food.” Looking down at his potato chip as he took another bite.

Binbin: “Must finish my potato chip”

Me: *Eyes rolled* “Its not just potato chips my dear…whenever you have food to eat, ANY FOOD, you MUST try to finish it because these people don’t even have one grain of rice to eat. Food is important because it makes us grow taller and stronger…”

Binbin: “Just like my Papa…”

Me: *laugh* “Ya… like your Papa” (stole a glance at the 1.63m tall man sitting on the sofa munching the potato chips)

There are organisations who are dedicated to help children like these, who would love to go the extra mile to make this Christmas that much more special for the unfortunate ones, you can support them in my previous post