Careful Speech and Careless Speech: A Story Based on a Barbados Proverb
Especially for Girls
Mama and Papa Flying Fish have two little Flying Fish:
Careful Speech and Careless Speech.
Careful Speech talks about the good, the true, and the beautiful. She notices and points out the good in everyone, every circumstance, and everything. Rather than
Careful Speech and Careless Speech: A Story Based on a Barbados Proverb Especially for Boys
Mama and Papa Flying Fish have two little Flying Fish:
Careful Speech and Careless Speech.
Careful Speech talks about the good, the true and the beautiful. He notices and points out the good in everyone, every circumstance, and everything.
Today’s Country: BANGLADESH
Today’s Capital: DHAKA
Bangladesh Proverb: Look before you leap. Think before you act.
Food eaten in Bangladesh: chicken, beef, fish or mutton, as well as dal (a spicy lentil soup) and vegetables commonly accompany rice
Thoughtful and Thoughtless: A Story for Girls Based on Bangladesh’s Proverb
Mama and Papa Tiger have two little tigers:
Thoughtful and Thoughtless.
Thoughtful listens and thinks before she speaks and acts.
Thoughtless speaks, acts, and then is sorry she didn’t think first.
At breakfast Mama and Papa Tiger tell Thoughtful and Thoughtless to play inside because the
Thoughtful and Thoughtless: A Story for Boys
Based on Bangladesh’s Proverb
Mama and Papa Tiger have two little tigers:
Thoughtful and Thoughtless.
Thoughtful listens and thinks before he speaks and acts.
Thoughtless speaks, acts, and then is sorry he didn’t listen and think first.
At breakfast Mama and Papa Tiger tell Thoughtful and Thoughtless to play inside
Today’s Country: BAHRAIN
Today’s Capital: MANAMA
Bahrain Proverb: Whoever doesn’t reach the grapes, he say’s they’re sour.
Food eaten in: fish, meat, rice, and dates muhammar
Official Languages: Arabic
Bahrain is famous for its natural pearl fisheries.
Benevolent and Jealous: A Story for Girls Based on Bahrain’s Proverb
Mama and Papa Camel have two little camels:
Benevolent and Jealous.
Benevolent does good for others, wishes others well, and rejoices when good things happen to anyone.
Jealous always wants other’s things, opportunities, and victories.
When Benevolent gets dressed she is thankful for clothes, shoes
Benevolent and Jealous: A Story Especially for Boys Based on Bahrain’s Proverb
Mama and Papa Camel have two little camels:
Benevolent and Jealous.
Benevolent does good for others, wishes others well, and rejoices when good things happen to others.
Jealous always wants other’s things, opportunities, and victories.
When Benevolent gets dressed he is thankful for clothes,
Being late is a form of stealing. That’s a tough truth, but it’s a truth nonetheless. When you make others wait for you, you rob minutes from them that they’ll never get back. Time they could have turned into money, or simply used for the things important to them. In coming to meet you at
Today’s Country: THE BAHAMAS
Today’s Capital: NASSAU
Bahamas Proverb: When criticizing the other, you are perhaps just as guilty.
Food eaten in Bahamas: conch, grouper, peas ‘n’ rice, johnnycake, grits and rum cake.
Official Languages: English
The Bahamas are
Communicate and Criticize: A Story Especially for Girls
Based on the Bahamas Proverb
Mama and Papa Flamingo have two little flamingos:
Communicate and Criticize.
Communicate calmly communicates with her words and actions.
Criticize finds fault with every circumstance, everything and everyone.
At breakfast, Communicate says, “Thank you Mama for making such delicious johnnycakes, boiled fish and grits
Communicate and Criticize: A Story Based on the Bahamas Proverb
Especially for Boys
Mama and Papa Flamingo have two little flamingos:
Communicate and Criticize.
Communicate calmly communicates with his words and actions.
Criticize finds fault with every circumstance, everything and everyone.
At breakfast, Communicate says, “Thank you Mama for making such delicious johnnycakes, boiled fish and grits with
Sooner or later, we all rise or fall to the level of our friendships.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
How to pronounce Azerbaijan
Today’s Country: AZERBAIJAN
Today’s Capital: BAKU
Azerbaijan Proverb: Beauty without virtue is a curse.
Food eaten in Azerbaijan: eggs cooked “sunny side up” on a bed of fried green and white onions, raw tomatoes
A Story Especially for Boys Based on Azerbaijan’s Proverb:
Secure and Insecure
Mama and Papa Squirrel have two little squirrels:
Secure and Insecure.
Secure thinks, “How can I make the world better? What is the right thing to do? How can I help?”
Insecure always thinks, “What will everyone else think of me? How can I
A Story Especially for Girls Based on Azerbaijan’s Proverb: Secure and Insecure
Mama and Papa Squirrel have two little squirrels:
Secure and Insecure.
Secure thinks, “How can I make the world better? What is the right thing to do? How can I help?
Insecure always thinks, “What will everyone else think of me? How can I
Critical people view others through their own dirty glasses. The dirt on their hearts causes them to see everything from an unclean, critical perspective. They become angry at what they perceive to be dirt on other people, when in reality they are looking at others through the dirt on their own hearts.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
