A butterfly grows from the egg stage to caterpillar, from caterpillar to chrysalis and from chrysalis to become a beautiful and colourful butterfly.
When a child is being formed in the womb, i consider this as the egg stage.
When it is born into the world, i call this the caterpillar stage, and the best is yet to be seen. According to the caterpillar stage of development, it starts to feed on leaves and flowers. When i compare the growth of a child with this creature, a child starts to gather knowledge and continues to grow. My emphasis is on the thought pattern of an individual child, it is through thoughts that actions, character and habits are formed.
A positive minded child will definitely grow up to act right, possess good character, form good habits, have great relationship with others and will be a kind and strong individual that will not only succeed, but also impact others and the world in general.
Parents ought to teach their children how to develop positive mindset. It is the duty of parents to work on the thought pattern of each of their children by modelling positivity themselves.
They should also expose their children to lots and lots of happy activities. They should shower them with so much love, so much hugs, so much kisses and fun.
These children are watching, learning and forming their own thought pattern by what they see and experience; they are invariably growing in knowledge and wisdom.
The habit of positive thinking therefore, can be likened to the leaves and flowers that a caterpillar is feeding on at the caterpillar stage, which help it to grow fat and robust.
After the caterpillar has thoroughly been fed fat, it becomes too big for its skin. It will automatically shed its skin and will be transformed into a chrysalis also known as pupa. The chrysalis stage is known as the rest stage. And for human beings, I call it the transformation stage.
The chrysalis breaks forth and drops its old skin. It will come out wet and gradually assumes its original shape and hardens into a waxy pupa. If I dare to compare what is going on at this stage in the life of a butterfly with that of a child, it means the child will begin to show forth great qualities, good character and excellent habits through the positive mindset that has become a part of his or her life.
Chrysalis emergence into a transformed butterfly is indeed a wonder. I will rather call it one of the wonders of the world, as it breaks free from being a chrysalis to reveal an amazing beautiful butterfly.
Just like the butterfly emerges as a beauty to behold, same way the child, this masterpiece will finally emerge, but no longer a child but a matured minded individual.
A whole load of words such as masterpiece, priceless, jewel, worthwhile, successful, smart, a goal getter, a world changer and much more will be used to describe this individual.
Indeed, nature has a lot to teach us, but we are just too preoccupied to notice!
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