It’s not inappropriate to sit the kids down and explain that though you and they can’t have everything you might prefer, they are rich. They have a permanent home. They have a reliable three healthy meals a day. They are safe at night. They are warmly and decently dressed. Getting new clothes is not an astoundingly rare thing for them. They are not beaten. They can go to a doctor when they’re sick. Drinking the available water won’t make them sick. The water, in fact is not turned off most of the day. They are not needed to hoe a field or carry wood every day. And that vast numbers of people in the world and many thousands in their own region do not have many of those things. And kids who would cry with joy to have generic choco puffs.
It’s not inappropriate to sit the kids down and explain that though you and they can’t have everything you might prefer, they are rich. They have a permanent home. They have a reliable three healthy meals a day. They are safe at night. They are warmly and decently dressed. Getting new clothes is not an astoundingly rare thing for them. They are not beaten. They can go to a doctor when they’re sick. Drinking the available water won’t make them sick. The water, in fact is not turned off most of the day. They are not needed to hoe a field or carry wood every day. And that vast numbers of people in the world and many thousands in their own region do not have many of those things. And kids who would cry with joy to have generic choco puffs.