LET ME BE ME
The other day I visited one of my cousins. It had been long since we met and so was very nice to sit and chat with her. She has two daughters aged 10 and 8. Lovely girls, well groomed , well mannered. I could sense the pride in my cousin when I praised her daughters. We were sitting in her room and she asked her daughters to get juice and cookies from the kitchen. We went back to our chit chatter when suddenly a loud crackle made us both sit upright with a jolt. My cousin called out her daughters and asked what happened. I followed her to the kitchen and we saw that her younger daughter had dropped the cookie tray and the bowls broke. My cousin suddenly lost her temper and started scolding her younger daughter. I tried to calm her down but she became very hyper. She yelled at her younger daughter and said, “ why can’t you be like your elder sister. Has she ever broken anything. Learn something from her.” The poor girl had tears in her eyes and went to her room crying. I took my cousin...