LESSON: 4🔗

Introduction: Introduce the topic of comparing, how comparing leads to jealousy, how to overcome jealousy.

Goals: To make the kids aware of the fact that jealousy is the mother of hypocrisy.

Click: Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in your own progress.

About the topic: Jealousy has no solid existence, in that way it is like darkness. Darkness does not have an independent, positive existence. Darkness is not the presence of something. Darkness is just the absence of light. In the same way, jealousy has no independent, solid existence by itself. It is just the absence of knowledge or awareness. There is no end to comparison because comparison exists in mind, not in reality. The jealousy that arises from comparison also has no basis. Peer pressure is just a big ego game. Actually, ego is not at all necessary for you to grow. We always compare ourselves with our peers and always crave for the things which we are not having. Jealousy is closely related to many negative emotions like anger, greed, possessiveness and depression. All this emotions will dissolve when we break this cycle of jealousy. If you concentrate on your own track, you will be continuously progressing and expanding your own capacity. You need to compare yourself with only yourself, never with others. You need to win yourselves only by yourself, not by others. Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in your own progress.

Assessment:

Evaluation: Evaluate their language skills by asking them to share their experiences about the incidents when they felt jealous and how they were able to overcome it.

Conclusion: Jealousy cannot be overcome either by escaping from it or hating the object of your jealousy. Be satisfied with what we have, be happy with our self and enjoy life.

Material needed: Paper, sketch pen or pencil

Procedure: Encourage each child to look at any object and draw it in a different perspective, for example they can look at the computer and draw the side view.

Interpretation: When we change our perception of seeing, the whole view changes. We can overcome jealousy by changing the perceptions we have about a person

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Introduction: To make the children understand about compare / complain

Preparation: Make the children to sit in pairs facing each other.

Presentation: Ask each child to look at this friends left eye using his left eye and talk. Ask each child take turns and ask each how they felt.

Interpretation: We look each other only through our right eye because we use mostly our left brain. If we start using our left eye to see other people we will not judge that person. We will be very nice to them because we use our right brain when we see through our left eye. We will be heart oriented. We will not complain about the other person.

Children can do a presentation on the topic of how compare leads to jealousy.