Esmeralda
April 04, 2011
There was a little girl that my mom used to baby-sit. Her name was Esmeralda. Her parents were stark atheists. Wanting their daughter to get a good education, they still sent her to private school. Her father did not want her to pray and insisted she was never to participate in prayer with the others at school. Esmeralda obeyed and refused to partake of the morning prayer. One day my mom asked Esmeralda what they said for morning prayers and she confidently answered, "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come..." and she recited the whole prayer verbatim. Let there be no doubt that "repetition is the mother of learning."
Comments: 3
Michelle (April 04, 2011)
What a great lesson in such a simple story. No matter what we tell a child, we need to make sure our actions follow that too because children learn from seeing, hearing and doing more than they do from dictation.
AGT (April 05, 2011)
Michelle, I think that children learn from the combination of all of the above. We need to know that they are listening, watching, and imitating all that we do and learning hopefully what is right from us, but unfortunately possibly what is wrong from others.
Nevine (April 06, 2011)
It is important that we monitor what they learn from others.