Life And Living Part 31

Little Ones Can Be An Adventure

Life and Living

Part Thirty-Two

There are some things that are just right to do, and there are some things that are just wrong to do.

Therefore, it is good to know what the words “right” and “wrong” mean. One dictionary definition of right is: “morally good, justified, or acceptable.” The definition of “wrong” is “not correct or not true.” Now that you know the definition of both words, you may still be in a slight dilemma. And since we are in a dictionary mode, let’s use it for its definition of dilemma. OK?

Dilemma: a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.

Now, the dilemma comes when you are instructing your two-year-old child, who has just done something that was just not right to do. Do you try to explain why the action was not right to do, or do you just “firmly” say “no,” and they should by now know that what he/she was doing was not to your liking?

Since growing up takes a lot of learning and patience (on the parent’s side), The child will undoubtedly do what he/she had done at least one more time, and maybe it would be at this second or third time for you to go into the details of why the action was wrong and not right. So now, you are teaching the meaning of the two words we started with right and wrong.

And this is all in a day of Life and Living. And you may have experienced it already.

7/21/2020 Larry E. Whittington

God bless.