Punishing the wrong child…

This is an old incident, worth thinking on for everything!!!

Two cousins – “Good” and “Naughty”, of same age, say around 7-8 years met at their grandparents place. As their pseudo names suggest, Good is obedient, Naughty is defiant; Good is accommodating, Naughty is stubborn and they both differs in practically everything from eating habits to other activities.

Good’s mom made him eat everything, every vegetables even if Good likes it or not; Naughty’s mom couldn’t make him all vegetables, he used to eat only potatoes.

At Grandma’s place, grandma prepared Brinjal which is disliked by both Good and Naughty. But, Good is ready to Brinjal because of his mom’s sake, whereas Naughty refuses to eat as he wants only potatoes. [Potatoes happens to be liked by both of them.]

Grandma appreciates Good for his wonderful behaviour, as he eats Brinjal, lots of praises for our “good” boy.

On the other hand, Grandma prepares potatoes for Naughty and tells him he is not worth of any praises.

So far so good…

Guess what was the thinking of Good…

"… whats the use of getting all the praises, I get to eat things which I don’t like whereas, even if Naughty is so called bad, potatoes are prepared for him… better to be bad have the food you like rather then being good…"

You see, Grandma has (indirectly) punished the wrong child. Don’t blame the child, his thinking isn’t wrong. With a child, be a child and think like a child.

Think and act, may be you are punishing the wrong child

Comments

Unknown said…
Loved it....it is so true isn't it, we cannot keep pleasing the world by pretending, we got to be what we are for our friends to accept us or for anyone to accept us.
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