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Parenting, Discipline, Example, Aesop's Fables: The Thief and His Mother
A BOY stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it
home to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him, but
encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and
she again commended him. The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded
to steal things of still greater value. At last he was caught in the
very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the
place of public execution. His Mother followed in the crowd and
violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, "I
wish to say something to my Mother in her ear." She came close to
him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The
Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, "Ah!
if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that
lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to
a disgraceful death."
Example is more powerful than precept, and parents are most encouraged
to set the example to their children.
