He also regularly hugs his grandparents and can be expected to give up his seat for someone else on a city bus without being asked. Recently, on his father’s birthday, Devin offered to skip an outing he had planned with his friends so he could spend time with his dad on the special day. But overall he consistently shows the ability to transcend self-centeredness and behave in ways that are caring and considerate. He can make irrational decisions and is mean to his younger sister at times. We know a 16-year-old boy - let’s call him Devin - who, in many ways, behaves like a typical kid with all the problems and selfishness of most teenagers.
Or when your five-year-old puts on a cape and demands that everyone in the house stop what they are doing and watch a spontaneous magic show that lasts and lasts and lasts (and no, you may not go to the bathroom until it’s over!), his egocentrism can make you wonder if he will ever become someone who considers others. When your toddler conks you on the head with a Tinkertoy and then laughs even though you are visibly hurt, it may be hard to imagine her becoming a caring, empathic person as she grows up. Psychiatrist Daniel Siegel and social worker Tina Payne Bryson explain how. What would you have done to stop the Onceler? Plan a revolt by the animals of the forest.IStock Ever worry that your kid is a jerk? Or wish they’d send a thank-you note without your forcing them to do it? Empathy can be developed and encouraged in young people. A story about four friends, a city in need of help, a bunch of clueless groan-ups and a very angry, very brown and very dangerous cloud. Ps – A cloud called Bhura by Bijal Vachharajani is a brilliant book to read with this to see how even children can make a change. What can you do? – For that is the need of the hour. “Why was the Lorax all talk, no action?” Why is action, important and urgent. The Lorax does nothing to stop deforestation other than tell the Once-ler that he’s destroying habitat. To a pre teen / teen – questions the utter ineffectiveness of The Lorax. Unless you care about it enough and do something about it, how will things change?īut also brings forth the courage to say the much-needed and the hardest thing to do ….to be the first one to say “I care about it”, needed to start the chain of events. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. When the Lorax disappears from the barren wasteland, he leaves behind a small pile of rocks with one word carved into them: UNLESS. …Watch Al Gor’s Inconvenient truth video ( )Īwareness is critical to solving our global #climate crisis BetheChange Ask kids “How would you convince the Onceler to stop cutting trees?” Watch (how bad can I be? – from lorax the movie)Ĭonnect with the Amazon forests on fire. …“I am the Lorax,I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” – Can you think of other things that have no tongues (cannot speak for themselves?) – poaching, polluting waters and harming fishes etc. Can you think of things that we think we cannot live without now, but were never needed before? – Mobile phones, whatsapp, airconditioners 🙂 Climate crisis and #Pollution Most of the things we are sold as “needs” are hardly necessary for our survival. …The Oncler claims, “A Thneed’s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!”īut many of our “needs” are manufactured via advertising. …What would you do with a Thneed? CharacterBuilding – Greed vs Need
This book is a wonderful way to start a conservation about need vs greed and how they impact life on earth. But it’s not all doom and gloom in this brilliant environmental tale – at the end there is hope. The Once-ler was responsible for cutting down every last Truffula tree to make ‘Thneeds’ that everyone bought, but no one needed.Īlong with the last of the Trufulla trees, went the Brown Bar-ba-luts, the Swamee-Swans and Humming-Fish. In The Lorax he created an unforgettable and passionate little ecologist and the equally unforgettable and spooky, ‘Onceler’ – the villain of the piece. I was out to attack what I think are evil things…” In 1971 came ‘The Lorax’ which Dr Seuss said “came out of me being angry.
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