The young child had no inhibition that giving his family's food would be insufficient. Like how only physicists and young children can readily grasp bilocality (being in more than one place at one time, the property of the Higg's-Bosun God Particle which mixed state quantum physics imitates), the child saw not that what he had to give was futile or useless! He gave all he had, his inner light being less dimmed due to innocence - and that's what we are to do.
