Theme: Obedience

I'm going!

Miguel was growing and learning with his family to be better every day. But there was one thing that worried his mother. Every time someone asked him to do something, he replied:

- I'm going!

His mother called:

- Miguel, come to lunch!

- I’m going, mom - he'd answer, but he didn’t go.

The other day, the mother asked:

– Miguel, help Ritinha take out the trash.

- I'm going, mom!

But then again, he didn't.

Miguel got used to using that expression: “I'm going”.

His mother was getting worried. Children who learn to obey at home, at school, in the places they go to as children, in the future, when they become adults, will know how to obey the rules of society, and live in peace, living together with other people.

In addition, Miguel's behavior of not obeying was already disturbing the family. Because he never cooperated, some services were left undone, the house was a mess. With his bad example, his sister no longer wanted to obey either. Even the peace of the family was threatened, as the mother lost her temper, the father became nervous and the siblings argued, one accusing the other.

One day Miguel was playing in the backyard. It was a big ground and there was a tree there. Miguel managed to climb the tree alone, but when it was time to came down, he was afraid of falling. He tried on one side, on the other, he moved to a lower branch, but still, he couldn't. The only option was to call his mother to get him out of there.

Suddenly, Miguel heard the popsicle cart sound. He loved it when the ice cream man passed his street. He immediately started screaming loudly, calling his mother.

- Mom! Mom! Help me go down!

But the mother was far away and not listening.

Then he called out to his sister:

- Ritinha, call mom!

The girl listened, but from where she was, just replied:

- I'm going!

- Call mom - he insisted.

- I'm going! - she repeated.

- Call now, I want to get down - Miguel asked, while he listened to the popsicle car whistles moving away, until he couldn't hear it anymore.

Only after a long time, the girl left what she was doing and pay attention to her brother.

So, the mother went to the tree and helped Miguel down.

The boy was angry with his sister and was about to start fighting with her, when the mother, intervening, said:

- Have you seen, my son, how things are? Ritinha just imitated a behavior that you keep doing yourself. Now I think you've realized that when another person calls us it's because they need our help at that time. We can't just say "I'm going". We need to have obedience and go on time. Did you see how bad it was to wait so long? You lost your temper, you got angry. Mom tries to be patient with you because she knows that you learn more every day and, in the future, you will no longer have this behavior. I don't want to need your help anymore and hear “I'm going”; ok?

Miguel didn't like it, but he had to admit that he did act that way. He also didn't like having to wait, afraid of climbing down the tree. Not even missing the ice cream...

But no doubt, this was a valid experience, because from that day on, Miguel never stopped obeying his mother, on time.

Text adaptation from the website Seara do Mestre

Translation:
Larissa Martine - larissa_am@hotmail.com

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