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Whining is a dysfunctional coping style with long term negative consequences.
Unfortunately, because of the short-term gain it is difficult to change once it has become an accepted though undesirable means of coping.
In our story, Connie a wise old crow is given what we recognize as the head of a stuffed bear toy by some young crows. The young crows are interested in what type of animal this could have been.
Connie uses this opportunity to talk with the young crows about what happened to the animals known as the Woolly Whiners and why it happened to them.
It seems that the Woolly Whiners looked like bears but they did not act like bears. Bears, like most animals, know that you must study and learn how to succeed in the world. They accept that these lessons are difficult and very few are fun all of the time.
The Woolly Whiners would not accept this reality, But this is too hard and will take too long and I want to go out and play. The Whiners learned little and even what they did learn; they did poorly because they refused to practice.
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