I was in the school library and overheard a child crying. His father and he had been to the children soccer games earlier in the day and had left the child's winter shoes and his toy helicopter in the gym, where they had been locked. The father had to call in a person that had the keys on a saturday and have them open the door so that the wailing child could get his helicopter - he didn't even care about the shoes.
But if it was just for a toy, couldn't they have waited to monday? Was the child crying because he was sad, or because he wanted the helicopter? If it was the latter, then he should have learned that crying does not solve your problems in the real world - but of course the parent pulled all the stops in order to satisfy his kid. Would I have done that? Would that have been the right thing to do? In the end, the kid won't appreciate the effort his father took to please him. And he won't love his helicopter toy more. So then why?
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