«Nuta, please, put on your gloves, your hands will be cold. And don’t forget to take your scarf. You may get ill while walking from our house to the car.» father told Nuta.
«Go away from this boy», her parents said together, “ he is sneezing, you may get ill.»
Finally, Nuta became ill. Parents called the doctor and started to cure their daughter: with mustard plaster, pills and gargle. But Nuta didn’t recover. Her parents had to go to work, but they could’t leave Nuta on her own. So they had to call grandmother.
After arriving to the house, Nuta’s grandmother looked at the parents and said:
«I don’t know what you think, but I’ll take Nuta to my place. The situation is getting out of control, you are making her worse.»
Just because she was older than the others, everybody obeyed. Nuta and her grandmother got on the train, and her parents went to work.
In a week father and mother came to visit sick Nuta. They went into the house, but Nuta wasn’t inside. They got fear. Where was she? Maybe she was at hospital, and nobody told them?
They went outside and saw grandmother working in the garden and watering plants. And next to her was Nuta, jumping in puddles, barefoot, and singing a nice song:
«The sun helps me to grow,
The rain makes me grow».
Nuta’s face was dirty, but she looked so happy and healthy. With her dirty hands she was holding a cake and in some pauses in her singing she was chewing it with a great appetite.
So Nuta recovered, and her parents stopped worrying.
Once upon a time there were father and mother and they had a daughter named Nuta. She was smart and beautiful, but very hungry. The reason was her character: she was a fussy eater and, all the time she was eating, she was very naughty.
One day her mother said: «Nuta, eat this tasty porridge with milk and raisins». But Nuta pushed the plate away and complained: «It’s disgusting, I don’t like porridge».
Father said: «So, sweetheart, eat then dumplings with meat, they are so delicious.» But Nuta refused to eat and started to cry: «I don’t like dumplings, eat them yourself.»
Parents asked: «Okey, what do you like? What do you want to eat?»
«I’d like some candies or cookies. I like sweets, you know!»
Parents thought how to make Nuta eat healty and tasty food and they came up with an idea.