One day, a mouse wakes a huge lion up and asks it to let it live. What really matters is the effort one makes. Children shouldn’t compare themselves to their teammates. Winning or losing, having the best grades… it’s not what’s truly important. Looks can be deceiving and vanity is an enemy.

However, it sleeps for so long that it can’t reach the finish line on time, before the tortoise. The hare is so sure it’ll win that it evens stops to sleep during the race. But against all odds, in this fable, the tortoise wins. In a race between these two animals, you can sense who’s going to win. What better way to teach them about humility with these fables? The Hare and the Tortoise Showing disrespect for others is one of our great weaknesses. Over the years, goals aren’t as easy to achieve, so they’ll also develop their sense of responsibility. For example, if you teach your children to be persistent and help them good create study habits, they’ll focus more and it’ll pay off in the long run. The lesson here isn’t about not helping others, but rather avoiding being lazy like the grasshopper. Then, what happens when winter comes? The grasshopper has nothing to eat and it asks the ant for help, but the ant refuses to do so. In this case, the grasshopper spends its summer singing while the ant keeps working, saving food for winter. This fable tells a similar story to the first one, but from a different point of view. If you don’t do the things you’re supposed to do now, these projects will be just that: ideas that’ll never get made, without any profits to be made. Having plans, ideas, and projects is a good thing, but paying attention to what’s ahead is even more.

However, she’s so distracted by her thoughts that she trips, the pail falls, and the milk spills. With the sale’s money, she plans to buy eggs, hatch some chickens and then sell them to buy even more animals and gain more money. A girl was going to the market to sell a pail of milk.

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