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Leo Buscaglia and Kids
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a
contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the
contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose next door
neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently
lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went
into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap,
and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he
had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
"Nothing, I just helped him cry."
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Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a
picture of a family.
One little boy in the picture had a different color hair
than the other family members. One child suggested that
he was adopted and a little girl said, "I know all about
adoptions because I was adopted."
"What does it mean to be adopted?" asked another child.
"It means," said the girl, "that you grew in your Mommy's
heart instead of her tummy."
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A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up.
As the doctor looked down her ears with an otoscope, he
asked, "Do you think I'll find Big Bird in here?"
The little girl stayed silent.
Next, the doctor took a tongue depressor and looked down
her throat. He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie
Monster down there?"
Again, the little girl was silent.
Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he
listened to her heart beat, he asked, "Do you think I'll
hear Barney in there?"
"Oh, no!" the little girl replied. "Jesus is in my heart.
Barney's on my underpants."
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As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch
a local Little League baseball game that was being played
in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on
the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score
was.
"We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a smile.
"Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very discouraged."
"Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Why should we be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet."
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Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and
think about little Jamie Scott. Jamie was trying out for a part
a school play. His mother told me that he'd set his heart
on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen. On
the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect
him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with
pride and excitement. "Guess what Mom," he shouted, and then
said those words that will remain a lesson to me
"I've been chosen to clap and cheer."
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A lesson in "heart" is my little 10 year old daughter, Sarah,who was born with a muscle missing in her foot and wears a brace all the time. She came home one beautiful spring day to tell me she had competed in "field day" - that's where
they have lots of races and other competitive events.
Because of her leg support, my mind raced as I tried to
think of encouragement for my Sarah, things I could say
to her about not letting this get her down, but before
I could get a word out, she said, "Daddy, I won two of
the races!"
I couldn't believe it!
And then Sarah said, "I had an advantage.
"Ah. I knew it. I thought she must have been given a head
start...some kind of physical advantage. But again, before
I could say anything, she said,
"Daddy, I didn't get a head start... My advantage was I
had to try harder!"
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An Eye Witness Account from New York City, on a cold day
in December
A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe
store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the
window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the
boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking so
earnestly in that window?" "I was asking God to give me
a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply.
The lady took him by the hand and went into the store
and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks
for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin
of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back part of the store
and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little
feet, and dried them with a towel. By this time the clerk
had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's
feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes. She tied up the
remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted
him on the head and said, "No doubt, my little fellow, you
feel more comfortable now?"
As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her by the
hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes,
answered the question with these words: "Are you God's Wife?" |
