文档介绍：David, my next-door neighbor, has two young kids aged five and seven. One day he was teaching his seven-year-old son Kelly how to push the lawn mower around the yard. As he was teaching him how to turn the mower around at the end of the lawn, his wife, Jan, called to him to ask a question. As David turned to answer the question, Kelly pushed the lawn mower right through the flower bed at the edge of the lawn -- leaving a two-foot wide path leveled to the ground!
   我的邻居大卫,有两个小孩,一个5岁,另一个7岁。一天,大卫正在教他7岁的儿子凯利如何使用割草机割草。当教到怎样在草坪尽头将割草机掉头时,他的妻子简突然喊他,询问一些事情。当大卫转过身回答简的问题时,凯利却把割草机推到了草坪边的花圃上--结果割草机所过之处,花尸遍地,原本美丽的花圃留下了一条2尺宽的小径。
 
 When David turned back around and saw what had happened, he began to lose control. David had put a lot of time and effort into making those flower beds the envy of the neighborhood. As he began to raise his voice to his son, Jan walked quickly over to him, put her hand on his shoulder and said,"David, please remember ... we're raising children, not flowers!"
Jan reminded me how important it is as a parent to remember our priorities. Kids and their self-esteem are more important than any physical object they might break or destroy. The window pane shattered by a baseball, a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the kitchen are already flowers are already dead. We must remember not to add to the destruction by breaking a child's