Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia
once
Talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of
the
Contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner
was:
1. A four-year-old child, whose next door
neighbor was an
elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his
wife. Upon seeing the man cry,
the little boy went into the old
Gentleman's' yard, climbed onto his lap, and
just sat there.
When his mother asked him what he had
said to the
neighbor, the little boy just said, 'Nothing, I just
Helped him
cry.'
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2. Teacher
Debbie Moon's first graders were
discussing a picture of a family. One little
boy in the picture
had a different hair color than the other members. One of
her
students suggested that he was adopted.
A little girl said, 'I know
all about
Adoption, I was adopted..'
'What does it mean to be
adopted?', asked
another child.
'It means', said the girl,
'that you grew
in your mommy's heart instead of her
tummy!'
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3.
On my way home one day, I stopped to
watch a Little League base ball game
that was being played in a
park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench
on the first-
base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was
'We're behind 14 to nothing,' he answered
With a smile.
'Really,'
I said. 'I have to say you
don't look very discouraged.'
'Discouraged?', the boy asked with a
Puzzled look on his face...
'Why
should we be discouraged? We haven't
Been up to bat
yet.'
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4. Whenever
I'm disappointed with my spot
in life, I stop and think about little Jamie
Scott.
Jamie was trying out for a part in the
school play. His
mother told me that he'd set his heart on being
in it, though she feared he
would not be chosen..
On the day the parts were awarded, I
went
with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her,
eyes
shining with pride and excitement.. 'Guess what, Mom,' he
shouted, and then
said those words that will remain a lesson to
me....'I've been chosen to clap
and cheer.'
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5.
An eye witness account from New York
City , on a cold day in
December,
some years ago: A little boy,
about 10-years-old, was standing
before a shoe store on the
roadway, barefooted, peering through the window,
and shivering
With cold.
A lady approached the young boy and
said,
'My, but you're in such deep thought staring in that
window!'
'I was asking God to give me a pair of
shoes,' was the boy's
reply.
The lady took him by the hand, went into
the store, and
asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks
for the boy. She then
asked if he could give her a basin of water
and a towel. He quickly brought
them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back
part of the store
and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed
his little feet, and dried them
with the towel.
By this time, the clerk had returned with
the
socks.. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him
a pair of
shoes..
She tied up the remaining pairs of socks
and gave them
to him.. She patted him on the head and said, 'No
doubt, you will be more
comfortable now..'
As she turned to go, the astonished kid
caught
her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears
in his eyes, asked
her:
