Recently three of us were walking through a hall.A 5-year-old boy carrying a drink was shead of us,with his parents several meters in front of him.At one point,the boy fell down and half of his drink spilled onto the floor.seeing the mess he had made,he ran to catch up with his parents.We watched as he stopped his parents,they turned,and he pointed to the spill.However,his parents turned around,andkept walking,leaving the spill for someone else to clean up-not their problem,I siad to myself.
Icould tell that this bothered the child because he lept looking back to check on that spill all the way out of the building.His parents?Not once did they turn and look back.Not once.
What message did those parents send to their child?He obviously kenw that he had made the mess and needed to clean it up.They taught him that if you just walk away,someone slse will clean up your mess.
It was the end of a long day and everyone was really tried.But as parents,we need to always be careful of what lessons we are teaching our children.Maybe on a different day, when the parents hadn’t been burned out from having walked miles in a hall, they might have stopped to clean up the mess.But this day,they ignored it,and that boy will never forget the lesson they taught him.Let’s all try to know that children are watching us,whether it is convenient or not,and they want us to show them how to be good citizens.
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