Once there was a boy, and he loved sweets very much. He always asked his father for sweets. The boy's father thought hard about how to stop the child from asking so many sweets. An old man lived nearby. The boy's father decided to take the boy to visit him. He might be able to make the child give up sweets.
So they went to the old man. The father asked the old man to help him. But the old man liked sweets himself. He told the father bring his son back after a month. During the month the old man tried to give up eating sweets. At last he did it. When the boy and his father returned after a month, the old man had a talk with the boy. From then on the boy did not ask for sweets anymore. The boy's father surprised. He asked the old man, "Why didn't you ask my son to give up sweets when we came to you a month ago?" The old man answered, "How could I ask a boy to give up sweets when I love them myself? In the last month I gave up eating sweets."
A person's examples are always stronger than words. We should not ask others do what we can't do ourselves.
