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The Exercise portion of this story is designed to help children recognize when they are engaging or about to engage in some “Unicorn Behavior”. Awareness is the first step to changing.
Ask yourself:
Would I like it if someone said (what I am about to say) about me? If someone said that about me, would I be angry, embarrassed, sad. If someone said that about me, would I think that they were being “not nice?”
Now ask yourself:
What was my Stinky Thinking causing me to say or do that “not nice” behavior?
Was I trying to be hurtful toward that person?
Was I trying to make myself look important or smart or whatever? Was I trying to get attention from others with my “not nice” behavior?
Your “young unicorns” need to have this awareness and then to challenge and change their “Stinky Thinking” before they grow that horn and become a unicorn. Those adults, who have this particular style of thinking and behaving will eventually alienate others and their friendships will become increasingly short-lived. Their tendency toward hurtful behaviors will limit them to relationships with others that have the same style of thinking. Thus a "Unicorn" will have a “circle of friends” limited to other unicorns or submissive “toadies” and that is a very lonely circle.
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