Learning Good Manners

Some of you may recognise this place being the Baby Changing room at Raffles City. What's so special about this place? Nothing actually, but with the 3 colourful children chair located in the room. Going back to the Precious Moments Signing Event, Mama brought Gwendolyn here to changed her nappies. As usual, after changing, Lyn Lyn requested to wash her hands! However, as she was about to pick the blue chair as her "stepping stone" to reach the adult sink, a family came in, consisting of a grandma, a mother, a girl who is slightly younger than Lyn Lyn and another baby. Without second thoughts, the girl sat on the blue chair and insisted on sitting on it. Lyn Lyn was showing a sad face to Mama and Mama was telling her to wait and let "mei mei" sit first and we take turns in using the chairs. Lyn Lyn was on the verge of crying and Mama kept pacifying her to wait. Without teaching the girl on sharing, her grandma said to Lyn Lyn : it's the same chair, why do you want the blue chair. Mama was quite surprised, as Mama would have thought that the adult would consider the behaviour of the child being over possessive and should instill "sharing" behaviour...Mama thought that it's hopeless to reason with this grandma and just asked Lyn Lyn to be patient and wait until the other mother finishes with the changing of nappy for the baby. Finally, they have left and Lyn Lyn can take possession of all 3 chairs.

Moral of the story : If you refused to share, you'll end up having ONE only. If you waited and is willing to share, in the end, you'll end up having THREE!

See how happy Lyn Lyn is when she's taken "possession" of all 3 chairs