In daily life, when we go out with our children, the cake shops with sweet aromas in the streets and alleys can always attract the attention of children, and parents are worried that their children will eat too much sweets and buy too much waste, while they can't bear to refuse their children's requests. In recent years, the cake scraps launched by major bakeries have entered the public eye, and this economical, relatively healthy and can meet the "dessert stomach" form is widely popular among consumers. But there are also some mothers who are worried that buying scraps for their children will not look stingy? Will children feel humiliated and have inferiority complex?
The bakery's windows are filled with a variety of exquisite cakes, ranging from dozens to hundreds of dollars. A mother led her child through the window, and the child was attracted to the cake: "Mom, I want to eat the cake, buy me one!" ”
The mother was thinking about how to politely refuse her child's request, when she inadvertently caught a glimpse of a bundle of cake scraps next to her – not only low in price, but also in large quantities. Eating a small piece at a time will not make your child overly dependent on sweets.
The mother was overjoyed and was preparing to take the child into the store to buy cake scraps, but began to hesitate: will it not be good to buy scraps for the child to eat?
There is also a debate on the Internet about this topic. Some netizens said that it is too humiliating to buy scraps for children to eat, and only poor people will do this; children will feel very undignified when they see their parents only buy scraps for themselves, and even extend the remark that "poor parents raise children with inferiority".
"Buy cake scraps for children" means that "children will have an inferiority complex"? Not quite either. How they think about eating cake scraps depends more on how their parents guide them.
Buying goods of the same or approximate quality at the same or lower price is a very economical thing in itself. But the cake made from the same material, but in different shapes, faces two fates: it is marked with a price that is ten times different, and someone will use it to label the person who buys it with a class label.
The child's expressed need is "want to eat the cake", perhaps not to decorate the cake with cream and appear in the window in a delicate way, but simply to get the satisfaction of eating the cake. There is nothing wrong with parents buying cake scraps for their children and allowing them to eat the same quality cake in a more economical way.
Netizen Sajie is very willing to buy cake scraps for her children, she told her children: "This is a cake without cream clothes, which is healthier than wrapped in thick cream!" "When the child's wish to eat the cake is fulfilled, the parents do not have to worry about the additional burden of buying the cream cake. In addition, you can also let the child know that the money saved can be used to buy new toys and new picture books, and the child will understand from it, such a way of consumption is not only not shameful, but also a performance of "living a life".
For some families with general conditions, it may not be easy to buy a brand cake for their children for hundreds of yuan, but the emergence of scraps not only allows families with less affluent economy to meet their needs, but also allows merchants to avoid food waste.
To meet the needs of children with their best efforts, the value of this is much higher and more precious than a bag of scraps. What's wrong with that? This is a happiness worth remembering for many years to come.
Imagine if the mother buys scraps for her child and tells her children: "Our family is poor and can't afford to buy cream cake, don't let others know that you eat scraps, so that others will look down on you!" Children will feel that eating scraps is a "disgraceful and unseemly" thing, resulting in an inferiority complex. Parents themselves are deeply trapped in the current situation of "poverty", but also to pass on the feeling of "disgrace and shame" to their children, which will really bring an abyss-like sense of inferiority to their children.
Of course, some sensitive children subconsciously wonder if they are not worthy of letting their parents buy a "complete" cream cake. Other children bring better cakes to school, will they be ridiculed by their friends when they eat their own scraps?
So at the right time, parents can also buy a delicate cream cake for their children, guiding children to gradually understand that we are not unable to afford to buy cream cake, but when there is a need to taste the early, scraps are a more cost-effective choice; not only the poor will buy scraps, as long as they spend their own money to buy things, do not feel embarrassed, buy what is our freedom.
Parents should always be clear with their children, consume this matter, we are spending our own money, do not steal or rob, no matter what form of goods we buy, the price is high or low, we have the freedom to choose the item that makes us happy, there is nothing bad, and there is no need to feel inferior.
Commodities may have advantages and disadvantages, but people who judge the value of personality by the price of the goods they buy, and even indulge in improving their sense of superiority through the comparison of prices between substances, are not rich in their hearts.
Teach children to cherish in good times, be strong in adversity, not only eat the taste of mountains and seas, but also enjoy the happiness of cake scraps; do not define their personality because of the high and low of foreign objects, and do not arbitrarily evaluate the lives of others according to this; do not be arrogant and self-effacing, and live in a free and happy way, in order to carry a richer heart and move towards a larger world.
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