A Fable

Chica Marie has been having trouble telling the truth. She makes up stories, things that have the potential to land someone in very hot water, and she insists they are true. Until, that is, all the players and by-standers are questioned and it turns out Chica Marie told a whopper. Some of the things she reports fall apart when she is questioned, some of them are refuted by her TSS worker or teacher, some we might never know the actual truth. I can only guess she does it for attention, but I am trying to teach her the serious ramifications of telling fibs. So, I told her a very animated version of Aesop’s fable about the boy who cried wolf. She liked the story and has asked me to tell it a few times. We always end the story by saying what it teaches us. Last night, on the drive home Chica Marie told me her version of the story. She included my glib line about the shepherd boy being bored since this was in the olden days and he didn’t have a phone or IPad to entertain him while he watched the flock. At the end of her lengthened rendition, she recounted what we learned. In her words, “We shouldn’t cry wolf when there is no wolf and also, we shouldn’t watch sheep when we’re bored.” Aesop could not have said it better himself…..

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