LESSON: 3🔗

Introduction: Introduce the children to the topic of wanting to be someone else.

Goals: to make them understand how we always wish to be somebody else and how to overcome it.

Click: Nature has its own unique way of growth for each of us.

About the topic: Nature has its own unique way of growth for each of us. It does not matter whether you are a rose or a Lilly or a wild flower. The important thing is that the wild flower should realize its ultimate potential as a wild flower just as the rose should understand its inherent potential. The fragrance of you realizing your unique potential is what radiates and without effort, touches everyone around you. Whether it is beauty or intelligence, you are unique. We always want to be someone else, we compare with others and want to become like them. Explain what some of the aspects are, which we compare with others. When we see what somebody else has and start to compare, we borrow the desire of wanting things like them. This is called borrowed desires, which is born out of comparison. This borrowed desire is an example of a want, not a need. When you start spending your energy to realize borrowed desires, you feel that you don't have enough energy to fulfill all your desires. You have enough energy to fulfill all of your needs but not your wants. The moment one want is fulfilled; many more come up as you borrow more desires from others.Each individual is unique, although human beings appear to be the same; each one is unique and travelling in a different path. As long as you travel on your path with full concentration, you will experience fulfillment every minute.

Evaluation: Evaluate their language skills by asking them to explain about their wants and needs.

Conclusion: Nature has its own unique way of growth for each of us. Be happy with what we have and who we are.

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Materials needed: Plain sheet or any picture sheet, poster colors

Procedure: Ask the children to apply paint on their hands and print them on the paper. Encourage them to observe the paint and check whether the five fingers they printed are same size or not.

Inference: Connect to the fact our five fingers are not same size, each one is of a different size, each one has unique functions so when we cannot compare between our own fingers it is not correct to compare ourselves with others.

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This shows that each person is unique and special, and there is no other person the same as you.

Materials needed: paper, paint or ink, pencil, sponge.

Presentation: Gather the class and discuss the topic briefly. Talk about how everyone has different physical features and the special qualities in them. Have everyone look at their fingers, closely at their thumb and the designs on it. There is no one else in the whole world that has the same pattern of thumb print. Have them compare their thumbs and see how different they each are. Give each person a piece of paper with their name written on it. Using the paint or ink, you can place the thumb in a shallow plate or press the thumb on a sponge with paint or ink on it. Then press the thumb on to a plain piece of paper and see the shape of your thumb and the pattern clearly.

Variation: use a paper and pencil and have each trace their hand and color it in, or draw the patterns.

Conclusion: Everyone is special and different in their own ways. If we are happy with whom we are, we will not compare.