The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 07, 2014
February 06, 2014
February 08, 2014
Transcript:
Wilberforce: None of the kids in my gym class will play with me! Brutus: I used to be bothered by that sort of treatment when I was a kid, until I learned there are plenty of fish in the sea! Wilberforce: You expect me to play dodge-ball with a bass or flounder?
The ‘other fish in the sea’ is the long range perspective given to kids by parents when the kids find themselves unliked by others. The reality is, kids (and most of the rest of us) live in the short term, in the ‘right now’, and it’s not much comfort to be told that someday someone will want them around….