A friend of mine recently mentioned that
his young children sometimes cry so hard that they vomit. When I asked him what made the kids cry so
much, he said that it was generally because they wanted candy.
In order to avoid having similar problems
with our own two-year old son, my wife and I have never given him any chocolate
or sugary sweets. So the foods he gets
most excited about eating are raisins and plain yoghurt with a little
honey. Nobody could cry hard enough to
vomit just for a raisin.
I would also like my son to avoid having
the same problems with his teeth that I had when I was growing up. I grew up eating as many sweets and snacks as
I liked, and drinking fizzy cola. And I
had to get fillings for many of my teeth when I was still a child.
Although my son doesn’t eat much sugar, he
hates to have his teeth brushed. He
screams and squirms like he is undergoing torture.
I was the same as a small boy until one day
I heard my grandmother talking to my brother about her teeth. She had a pair of false teeth. She told him that because she hadn’t brushed
her teeth as a youngster, they had gone bad.
One day she had had all of her teeth pulled out. The image was so terrifying that I never
failed to brush my teeth again.
It’s nice to have teeth.
Vocabulary:
to vomit – to throw up; to expel food from
your stomach, out of your throat
a fizzy drink – a carbonated drink,
especially sugary drinks such as cola or lemonade
to squirm – to wriggle or twist one’s body,
especially from discomfort
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