GOOD TONGUE AND BAD TONGUE
Main asset or value is Truth
"Truth never changes and always stays the same."
Sub Asset: Faith, accuracy
Faith: "Steady faith in you removes doubts."
Accuracy: "Every person has a reason to be born."
Guided imagery and meditation for ten minutes with tuning in classical music
Once upon a time, a king wanted to have an exhibition of articles that would make people happy. A lot of articles were brought like flowers, fruits, books, musical instruments, sweets, expensive diamond ornaments, models of expensive palaces, silk robes, and so many more things. The king went through all of them, but his attention was caught by a clay model of a tongue called Good Tongue. The face was a happy, smiling face with a pink tongue well within the mouth. The face and the tongue looked so beautiful. The king sent for the sculptor and said "I am very upset that the exhibit is so cheap, and why did you put it there? How dare you take the exhibit so lightly? Let me know why you put that there in the first place?"
The sculptor did not get scared with the anger of the king, and he very politely replied, "Sir, all other things give momentary happiness. Good tongue through speech of soft-spoken words of love and sympathy gives happiness forever, gives hope and cheer to the people suffering with grief and fear, and gives strength and confidence to the weak-minded people and even the homeless. Love and sympathy can be expressed only with soft speech and make one feel like a king or god."
The king was very satisfied with the reply, all his anger gone, and gave him a lot of gold. The same king wanted to have an exhibition of the things that make people unhappy. The hall was filled with sticks, whips, knives, swords, thorny plants, bitter fruits, poison, liquor, barking dogs, cawing crows, and a clay model of big red eyes with a black tongue abusing a poor lean and hungry man called Bad Tongue. The king called the sculptor again. The sculptor explained to the king.
"My lord, bad tongue can kill others' happiness and joy, destroy their hope and courage, and push them into the pool of misery. It wounds the heart forever, and it is the worst enemy of man. When tongue remains behind the teeth, it helps enjoy the food, can talk effectively, and become useful. Out of boundaries, it cannot function. So are the human beings when they cross their boundaries."
The king gave him another bag of gold and took him as a minister in his court so that he could be a good ruler.
Please discuss the above quotes so the children between two and a half and five years can understand and make a statement how they can be used in daily life.
Discussion for example
- Do animals have tongues? Can their tongues talk?
- Can animals say how they feel? Can we say how we feel?
- Can we talk about good foods and bad foods? Can we choose good foods even if the tongue does not like the taste?
- Unless you put the food on the tongue and chew it, taste does not come into the mouth. How can we say we do not like food till we tasted the food?
- When you talk, you have to use your tongue. Did you feel great and good when you were praised and some told you they love you?
Adults in child's life have to be unbiased about various foods to make a child eat healthy foods. Discuss about using tongue for good speech and good food so that the body grows strong and with good personality.
Choose a song of good values from Zootopia or create your own song like I do.
When you are angry, you are not pretty
When you are happy, smile is pretty
When you are angry, words are not pretty
When you are happy, words are lovely
When you are angry, feelings are ugly
When you are happy, feelings are holy
When you are angry, body gets hot
When you are happy, body feels cool
When we are angry, we lose our friends
When we are happy, we make more friends
Oh, what a good thing to be happy
Life is filled with love and joy
Our circle grows
Happiness is ice cream
We can share x 2
-Meena Chintapalli
One can create music or rhyme with their creativity or just hum and make a rhyme.
Declaration: I will use my tongue for good speech and for eating good food.
This declaration is monitored by parents for the whole week with the following table:
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I will speak gently and softly.
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I will eat good food and not junk.
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I will try all new foods.
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I will talk to make people happy.
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Parents or caretakers have the responsibility of giving points for each day of the week for following this chart. Tangible rewards are gold stars or smiley faces.
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[Meena Chintapalli, M.D. F.A.A.P
Founder and C. E.O of A thru Z Pediatric Clinics, retired December, 2018.
Founder and CEO of The SAI Institute Of Educare
April, 2002.
Society For Assistance International
San Antonio, Texas.[FirstName]
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