A few days ago I told you that to raise a child you need a tribe, but that in most families we are alone parents doing what we can and more, and I find that there are countries like Japan in which, or have more time than we do, or stop doing other things to spend a little time, every day, to prepare children's lunch.
I comment because apparently there are mothers and fathers who are dedicated to make the time of children's lunch a moment of "recess". Every morning, when a Japanese boy opens his lunch box he finds a small edible work of art that can be a landscape or one of his favorite cartoon characters such as a cartoon or the image of a singer.
The goal of Japanese mothers is to get their children eat healthy and also eat enough of what they have prepared. Therefore, neither short nor lazy, they spend a good time each day creating visually striking dishes that surprise their children and encourage them to taste bites.
AdvertisingIf you look at the video you will see that there are even courses to learn how to do them, and some lunches need a minimum of knowledge to be prepared. You can also see that the question of whether, with so much work and dedication, and being something so visual and taste of children, it will not be generated among mothers and among children competition weather to see who makes the best or the most amazing breakfast. According to what they say, this pressure is a bit noticeable, but it is difficult to criticize something that aims to allow children to eat a balanced diet.
With regard to our Spanish children, there we continue and there we will continue, basically because for us to make such breakfasts several things have to happen that I doubt they will happen: that mothers or fathers have more time to make these breakfasts, that we become aware that our children have to have a more balanced diet, also making us aware that we should take it, that we are able to make these breakfasts and finally that we can get that the child does not run with the backpack when entering the school so that, when opening the lunch box, the Ecce Homo de Borja is not found instead of SpongeBob.
