Clean the room? Let's talk about it tomorrow: Cultivating life self-care ability: Cultivating life self-care ability

Author: [DE] Grita Kroll Text, [DE] Susanna Maes Illustrations
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: As children grow up, they need to learn to tidy up their rooms and take care of themselves. They must learn self-reliance and independence. Only when children possess these basic survival skills can we expect them to succeed in the future. What if children can't do it well or don't want to? Should we just do it for them? Or lose our temper? Or force them? No, no, no, the mole mother has a better way.
Mole Motti is busy playing with his friends during the day and too lazy to move at night, so he really doesn’t have time to tidy up his room. Day after day, the room becomes so cluttered that there’s barely any space to stand. But after the mole mother says a few words, Motti gets motivated. Not only does he start to be "hardworking," but he also occasionally reminds his little friends.
Does the mole mother’s words really have that much magic? Why don’t you try it too?