Once, four blind men went out to see an elephant. One touched the leg of the elephant and said, “The elephant is like a pillar.” The second touched the trunk and said,…
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Frog in the well
A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born and brought up there. And it was a small little frog. One day, another frog…
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The pandit who could not swim
Once, several men were crossing the Ganges river in a boat. One of them, a pandit, was making a great display of his erudition, saying that he had studied various books –…
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When did Mommy come to work for us?
Dad was sitting in his recliner one evening, reading the newspaper, while Mom was busy getting dinner ready in the kitchen. Their little boy, whose was in the living room with Dad,…
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A shove from the nest
Some people need a little push to be responsible. Dr. Kevin Leman, in his book Have a New Kid by Friday, shares a letter from Kari in Indiana: “My son didn’t find…
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Empty plates
In his book Have a New Kid by Friday, Dr. Kevin Leman teaches parents to “let reality be the teacher.” One mom, Amy from Texas, wrote Dr. Leman to tell him how she…
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Years of war vs. years of peace
A thinker of the last century, Gustave Valbert, sat down and calculated the number of years the world had been at war compared to the number of years of peace. He figured…
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Good things take time
It took Leo Tolstoy about six years to write the classic War and Peace. Cervantes published Part I of Don Quixote in 1605, but it was 10 years later — in 1615 — before he…
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Never give up!
This happened in November 2009. A South Korean woman celebrated after passing the written exam for a driving licence – on her 950th attempt. After four years of trying, 68-year-old Cha Sa-soon…
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Have some trouble
In their book Boundaries, psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend tell an interesting story about some parents who were having trouble with their 25 year old son. The son didn’t come to the…