So when I see the bento box still lying around on the table when I came home yesterday from dropping them off at school, I was pretty devastated. What is didi going to eat? Should I be the good ole mom to make her way back to school again and pass him the bento box before recess time?
There I was, trying to decide the best thing to do. In the end, I decided to teach him a lesson and see what he would do under such circumstances. After all, life is not a bed of roses, he needs to learn up some survival skills!
When he came back, I was very excited and asked him that question the first thing. He looked at me and said "yeah, I forgot the tupperware, why didn't you put it in the bag for me?". Gawd! What a demanding little brat! I said it's his responsibility and that would teach him a lesson next time to care for his own things.
I asked him what he did during recess time then. Did he look for his elder brother to share the food? Did he go wandering around, looking at all the food? Did he beg for food from the canteen's auntie? Did he salvage the leftover food from others?
He told me "noooo..... I told the teacher I forgot to bring food and she gave me 1 dollah to buy food". (yes! just what I thought he could do and he didn't disappoint me) And the next day, I gave him 1 buck telling him to return the money to teacher.
(The so-called bentos that day consists of 2 slices of bread, kiap with peanut butter and fruit jam each, 1 raisin vanilla homemade cupcake and 1 rice cracker with seaweed only)
4 comments:
wah didi so daring to ask for lunch money. i never ask teacher for money when I forgot to bring my lunch or have no money, ask friends got lah or else, just tahan till i get home.
dawn,
yeah, I also thought he would tahan until he gets home, after all, he did have some light brekkie before leaving for school. But hearing that he went up to the teacher himself, I feel so awesome proud myself! Thank God I didn't sneak into school to deliver the box to him.
He is so resourceful to ask from his teacher! Smart kid you got there.
mun,
actually, once i called a teacher up in school to ask him to remind him about staying back that day and if he could lend him 2 bucks to buy lunch since i totally forgot about that in the morning. so i suppose that was how he learnt this skill to ask from the teacher la. not exactly very smart, but at least he learns fast enough. :)
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