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Crow-like Tendency : Though black in complexion, the crow is endowed with unimaginably good characteristics. The reckless nightingale lays eggs and flies away. The grateful crow incubates those eggs. By remaining alert towards their children's upbringing, instilling high sense of values and helping build good character and taking all such creative steps is behaving like a crow.
To achieve this end, you should employ the following two effective techniques : Directing thought processes through story-telling :
A child by temperament is fond of stories. Every day you should spare some time to narrate a new, small story extolling virtuousness and righteousness. Alongwith that, you can highlight the moral of the story in a few and simple words. To achieve this end, parents need to become good story-tellers. If the story is loaded with moral values, appropriate for children and the narration is such that the child can digest it, then the result is extremely beneficial.
This style of upbringing will be recognized as moulding thought processes through story-telling. The person telling the story is not merely telling a story. Through the medium of the story, you are feeding the child with a new thought that is concrete and loaded with high sense of values. By repeatedly narrating the story of the Aaranyakaand of Ramayana, Mother Jijabai helped her ordinary son to become a valiant Maharaja Chhatrapati Shivaji, who protected the country from the invasion of the mughals.
Just continue this programme of story-telling for two years and you will be able to instill the seeds of many such high characteristics as truth, kindness, compassion, leadership, gratitude, generosity, integrity, courage, respect, right
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