FAMILY DISREGARD
One day a boy’s grandfather came to live with him and his parents. When the grandfather ate, he was unable to hold his spoon without spilling food on the tablecloth and the floor. This behavior irritated the boy’s parents, so they set up a table in the corner of the kitchen for him. One day, while he ate, the old man’s trembling hands could no longer hold his glass bowl; it fell to the floor and broke into a dozen pieces. The boy’s mother scolded the old man and went to the store to purchase a wooden bowl for him. A few days later, when the boy’s father returned home from work, he found his son sitting in the middle of the floor carving a block of wood. “What are you making?” the boy’s father asked him. The boy replied, “It is a present for you and mother — I am carving two wooden bowls so that you will have something to…
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