Karrick, karrick , karrick a work in progress

With the start of Lent next week, St. Pius X  is introducing 

the Principles of Catholic Social Teaching to the preschoolers

summed up are

  Human dignity

     • The common good     • Subsidiarity and
     • Solidarity

Karrick's class is participating in Operation Life Bowl in

which each child came home with a little cardboard

 bank to collect funds

Our morning went like this:

Mommy: 

  "Karrick this bank is to collect money for the poor kids"

Karrick: 

  "I'm not giving those kids my money"

                   

     he has no idea what poor kids are, they are those phantom kids

 we send our old toys and clothes to. So I whip out the

 brochure and show him the poor African children trying to appeal to his 

sympathetic side

   He listens to me with the look of

 Horror on his face

Mommy:

 "  Look,\  Karrick these kids have no food and no beds to sleep on.

their house has dirt floors and walls made of mud

  They have to get water from outside which is dirty

If  everyone gives just a little money it will help

buy them a bowl of rice" 

   Karrick:

" I SAID, I'm not giving any of my 

money to those kids!

 I need my money to buy toys!"

I try the less subtle approach

Mommy: 

     "Get your little butt up those stairs and get some coins

to put in the bank for the poor kids

 " It is what Jesus' would want you to do and

     it will make your heart feel good!"

     I admit it, I played the Jesus' card.

Karrick stomps up the stairs and stomps back down the stairs

and plops a nickle in the little cardboard bank

and with the look of Satan he says:

"This is all I'm giving to those kids, 1 coin!"

to which I reply:

"See, doesn't your heart feel good to give to someone that doesn't have 

all the things that you have?"

Karrick looks up at me with those big brown eyes and says:

"NOT SO MUCH!"