Loss Due To Negligence Once there was a woman who had a kitchen garden. She used to take good care of her garden. She even taught her daughter, how to tend a garden. One day, while walking in the garden, the woman some eggs of insects on the leaves of plants. She asked her daughter to destroy the eggs with insecticides. But the daughter simply ignored her words. Unfortunately, the mother...

Don’t Act Hastily One day, Victor was traveling through a train with his parents. All the time he was glancing at his new shoes that his father had bought for him. After some time, he removed his shoes to take a nap. When he woke up, he found one of the shoes missing. He started crying loudly. His parents tried to console him. At last, his father promised that after reaching...

Horse Riding From A Book   Once, a man went to a library. There he read a book, ‘How to ride a horse’. After few days, he went to a friend who had a horse.. seeing it, he couldn’t control himself and asked for a ride from his friend. The friend agreed.   The man tried to ride the horse. But a horse always recognizes its rider. It reared up and...

Naughtiness Is Harmful     A man used to move from village to village with his acrobatic team of a goat, a monkey and a snake to entertain people.   Once, while crossing a river, he balanced the snake basket on his head, sat the monkey on his shoulder and guided the goat with his hand. The level of the water was low but there flowed a strong current.   Midway,...

Laughter Is The Best Medicine Once there lived a grumpy king. He never used to laugh nor allow anyone in the kingdom to laugh. One day, a small boy couldn’t control his laughter. Later, scared of the punishment, he thought of a plan. He wrote a funny story and converted it into a drama. Then he went to the palace and asked the king, “May I present my drama to you?”...

Always Be Truthful One day, Princy was alone at home. Her parents had gone to attend a party. Princy saw a stapler lying on her father’s table. She picked it up and started playing with it. She tore the pages of an old book and started stapling them. When the staples got finished, she tried to refill the stapler. As she didn’t know how to do it, she broke it. Princy...

  Hard Work Always Pays   Once two friends called Harry and Garry came to a city to earn money. They went to a rich merchant for a job. The merchant gave each of them a cane basket and pointing towards a well in his garden said, “Take these baskets and draw water from the well till dusk.”   Harry thought it foolish to draw water in a cane basket. So,...

The Haunted House Peter shifted to a new house with his parents. The neighbors’ told them that the house was haunted but the family didn’t believe them. One day, when Peter was sleeping in his room, he heard some noises from the next room. He got scared and shouted in fear. His parents quickly came to his rescue. Peter told them that there was a ghost in the other room. When...