Shigeo Watanabe

This story is about a little bear who begins to eat by himself for the first time. “I can eat lunch all by myself.” He started with a bowl of soup, but he doesn’t know how to eat it, “Shall I drink it?” When he held the bowl to drink the soup, he realized that he should have used the spoon. After the many failures of trying to eat the lunch, the bear discovered that eating is harder than what he thought. It was a really good book for my child who always refuses to eat by himself because he doesn’t want to mess up the table or get dirty. I read this story for him to let him know that it is Okay to mess up when you learn to eat because it not easy and there is no problem if he eats in a wrong way because we always learn from our mistakes. As a mother, I did not like the end of the story when the bear mixed all the food: the soup, the salad, and the spaghetti in one plate to make it easy to him to eat it. In the last two pages, the little bear makes a huge mess on the table. I want my children to learn to eat by themselves, but surely, not by doing what the bear does in this book.… (meer)