The Giving Tree has but one difference; it gives no reason to commit. It exists for its own natural sake. Parents need to exist for children’s sake (or life is simply not worth living) and therefore will, like every human being, drop to a low when the going gets tough. We as parents will never stop producing the extra ounce of energy to feed the children’s need. Sadly, in a city filled with need and want to become more advance, children have no purpose for the gifts parents shower upon them. Today, they get the games, tomorrow, they get a perfect ice cream for a $1 by the MRT…between the two, the latter seems to give greater nourishment for their souls than all the material gifts put together. So there, keep the gifts simple…the children will not want to ‘chop our arm and leg to build their boats’…the tree cannot reason…we can.