Parenting Tip: How to help your children become engaged in simple pleasures: If your childs passion is making the world a better place -- and what a wonderful passion that is -- be aware that both of you will be likely to confront feelings of hopelessness as you really engage with the problems of the world. Giving one shoebox full of essentials to a construction worker here in Dubai is likely to make your child temporarily better, but also to drive home for them just how entrenched injustice is in our society. Tip: Remind yourself and your child that every positive thing we do matters, even when we cant see how. Remember the starfish story: A man walking along a beach came upon a little boy running frantically along the sand, picking up starfish and tossing them gently into the water. “What are you doing?” he asked. “The tide is going out, and these starfish will die here on the shore,” the boy answered, barely looking up. The man studied the beach for a minute. There were hundreds of starfish lying in the hot sun. “But you can’t possibly save them all,” he said. “It isn’t worth it.” The boy looked up. “It’s worth it to this one!” he cried, as he tossed another starfish into the ocean.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 04:46:00 +0000
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