We pick up our conversation on Talking about Poverty with Toddlers with further musings on a question that followed from Why doesn’t Gandhi have clothes?
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Why do the poor not have money?
In Why on 22 December 2015 at 10:57 amWhy doesn’t Gandhi have clothes?
In Why on 25 August 2015 at 2:24 pmWe were recently reading a book on Grandpa Gandhi to my 3 yr old. The picture of Gandhi with his naked body caught her imagination and she got started on her “why?” It started out with me explaining that Gandhiji doesn’t wear a shirt and ending in why do the poor not have any money. Here is part of our conversation:
N: Gandhi tata ke paas kapde kyon nahin hain?
Why doesn’t Grandpa Gandhi have clothes?
M: Kyonki unke pas paise nahin the… wo garib the.
Because he did not have money. He was poor.
[At this Bala corrected me with a better answer/correct reason.]
M: Kyonki wo garib logon ki tarah rahna chahte the.
Because he wanted to live like the poor.
N: kyon? Why?