I was tickled when Andy carefully cut the radish in half lengthwise Saturday evening. His mother had trained him well — when she gave him and his sister a goodie to share when they were kids, the rule was one would cut, the other would choose which piece to eat. They both learned to cut carefully.
December 16, 2019
how neat! early lessons well learned! xo
Yes. Smart mother!
So how did it taste? 🙂
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Just fine. Not too hot. But it was more fun getting it and watching Andy cut it than it was eating it. 🙂
a small memory but a useful one…and yes, how did taste. I assume you took your time eating it…
It was fun. No, it didn’t take all that long to eat. 😀
That was a very smart mom. It taught them a wonderful lesson.
Yes. 🙂
Beautiful lesson to remember!
Yes. Even I remembered the story, and Andy told it to me years ago.
My husband’s parents also did the one-boy-cuts-another-boy-gets-first-piece and with three boys it just set up competative natures in them all so that needs to be considered when teaching this lesson. (am I spelling that wrong?)
I imagine the dynamics are different for three brothers. It worked fine for Andy and his sister,
We also had that rule but there were three of us so if one piece was smaller the one cutting always got that one. I remember a story about Dwight Eisenhower being the designated pie cutter in their family–seven people. Can you imagine how hard it was to learn to cut a pie into seven equal pieces?
Yes, the cutter would get the smallest piece if they were kids. I gave Andy the largest half of the radish because he did all the work. 😀
Cut a pie into seven pieces? I would cut it into eight, then divide the eighth piece as best I could. How would they decide the order of the other six brothers? Way too complicated!
LOL!
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