Share or not to share!

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This is one question that keeps nagging parents. Do I teach me kid to share or not to share? Obviously, sharing is good, but there are equally obvious situations when you can't share, like during exams.

The other day my kid came back from her school and quizzed us this aspect. The situation she encountered was something like this:

She had her unit tests going on and having finished her test paper, she handed it over to the teacher. The teacher had said that the students who had done their papers, could do what ever they liked without disturbing. Knowing very well that post the school, she will have an oral exam from her mother about the paper, she decided to pen down some of the answers in her rough copy.

Another student thought to make better of this and tried to steal some glances from what she was writing and being the good student that she was, she gave him a stern look and covered her copy. The teacher noticed some activity and came over to check out. My kid explained the matter and told the teacher that she was hiding her notes that she was taking in her rough notebook of some of test questions so that she can easily discuss with her mother post the school, and the teacher says:

"So what ! why can't you show him? These days parents don't even teach sharing to their kids ! "

How do we react to this? :-)

Comments

  1. Raghu VempatiJanuary 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM

    Hmmm...Good one. Moral of the story?? To forgive is human....To err is divine LOL!!! :-)

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  2. The Rustic GoddessJanuary 25, 2010 at 8:36 PM

    very tough to decide whether to share or not and to what limit to share ! only experience can teach this.

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