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Hunger - a tool of punishment for your child

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A farmer in Afghanistan can grow one crop a year.

If he grows wheat and is successful (big if there) he will get roughly $50 profit.

If this same farmer instead grows poppy and makes opium he will clear $300.

That's the problem with the world's food supply in most areas.
What does that have to do with world famine? If the farmer makes a choice to grow poppies that's his choice. But we have a choice. Do we give or don't we? Do we forsake a Starbucks and give it to those who can't afford one or give it to a genuine charity who will use our £2.50?
 
A child doesn't work. This passage is talking about adults.
Children work all the time at age appropriate tasks (chores) given to them by their parents as part of their responsibility in supporting their household. At least responsible parents give their children tasks to do. Yes, the particular passage is talking about adults (which in the culture of the time was around 14 years old). When we teach and train our children, we are training them to be adults!
 
missing a meal will not harm a kid... no kid should be missing meals. When my baby girl was in grammar school .. breakfast was only after she was ready to go to school.. she loved french toast.. in jr hi and high school every thing else had to be done before her hair...
 
missing a meal will not harm a kid... no kid should be missing meals. When my baby girl was in grammar school .. breakfast was only after she was ready to go to school.. she loved french toast.. in jr hi and high school every thing else had to be done before her hair...
See, that's what I'm talking about. Common sense training and discipline with real world consequences for irresponsibility. What's missing one meal as a kid (let's face it, a lot of our kids today would be better off without a few meals once in a while!) in order to learn valuable lessons compared to much more severe consequences later in life if those lessons are never learned?
 
We have asked our kids to experience what it is like to be hungry. At school they used raise a bit of money at lunch time for just eating a bowl of soup so they would know what it's like to feel hungry.
But could they also fast?
 
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