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Show 5 . E" & SCHOOL &e ids A Chance 1o Do Very Best ,ilf By DR. DARYL J. McCARTY if; ! A little boy jn Eastern Utah was watching his father Ti kcows one morning, when Dad gave his son an im-Possible im-Possible order if "CARRY THAT can of milk to the house," the father if M aid. Sv li was a lull, five-gallon can of milk. The boy was about years old let i:l ME,GRUNTED. He strained. He looked over to his f Wpa for sympathy. ud better do what your Dad says," the grand- s!j lallwr said. pf"l E B0Y heaved and jerked and finally moved the big ' llie farmhouse. -i hi, re a montn was gone, I was carrying one of those M Sans full of milK in each hand," says the man who "?. J: Wce lhat struggling little boy. He is now past 50 eIiRE'S A lesson in tnat itl,e sIory- "'s 3 lesson that m Skh ers use of,en wilh lheir students. It's this: ind h your child obliged to do his or her very best, Con iyangsler wi" ofIen respond, hint i lhou8h- the alternative. What if that grander grand-er tad urged the boy's father that the milk can was i ihel ?? What if the father had relented and carried M aimL msel,? what if neither one of the men had not iK M boy to succeed? i5 "o'uld hY ' those thinBs had happened, the boy probably jj !lnj ve abandoned the struggle. That may seem a i steps enn"tr' but il s realy not- If a onng man side" "ractef S'rUggles' wi" severely stunt his growth ml Way' ne may become a huge man with a will of a t m! BACK t0 lhe boy who discovered he could carry licuit u ble load- He was told 10 d0 something dif- ' ame haS exPecIed to do it. He succeeded, and He hJ" er' stronger person because of it. ' Vame a sPlendid athlete, a coach and a teacher, cair, reS' when he hears a student say that he or she femni ethin. 'bat teacher will recite the story of '""k cans. f OTHER teachers will agree with the moral to 'few., ExPe much of vour children, and they'll le with results. |