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Cosmos talks to Parents ...Playful Paul
Cosmos Crow will use this brief opportunity to explain the major points in each story.
In this way, you will be able to insure that your child is learning how to develop Good Thinking, so that they will have OK Emotions and Thumbs Up Behavior. These are the skills that are necessary for a successful life.
You probably know classmates of your child who behave just like the Playful Paul in our story. Paul just wanted to have fun... all the time. He did not find his “school work” much fun so he distracted himself and entertained the zoo visitors.
There is nothing wrong with having fun but you have to know when to have fun, and how much time to give to “fun”. Unfortunately, Paul neglected his lessons that were intended to help him be able to return to the wild.
When his friends left to go back to their natural forest, Paul was left behind. It is easy for adults to see the potential consequences of Paul’s behavior.
But for most of us, when we are engaged in “fun”, we seldom think about what we should be doing with our time. Like Paul, we say , “ I’ll get it some day” and we all know that there is no such day on the calendar
as “someday”.
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