
"It's pre-school childcare - Chinese style. Dad Chen Chuanliu has told how he chains his two-year-old son to a tree while he's working because he can't afford a nursery place for him." - Link
n. /1. Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw. /2. Raw material, as for artistic creation. /3. A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market./ tr.v., -dered, -der·ing, -ders. /To feed with fodder. [Middle English, from Old English fōdor.] - answers.com

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson