A 'No' is as beautiful as a 'Yes'
When a group of kids ask a child for ball and the response is 'no', you hear others say... "We will not play with you again". Many of us had scientific calculators in secondary school that got spoilt in just a week of purchase because we weren't bold enough to tell our careless mates 'No'. Many of my mathematical sets suffered this. I lost count of the number I bought, none lasted a term. Our parents taught us really well, and we won't be who we are today without their input. However there a few more things we might need to tell our kids, so as to provide them a more balanced approach to life. We were morally taught as young children that 'I'm sorry', 'please' and 'thank you' are golden words. We were taught that it matters how we make others feel in our interaction and responses. This is good and true. But we weren't taught that saying 'no' is not lesser than saying 'yes' . We were made ...
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