How To Behave and Why - Chapter FAIR

Friendly
People find it easy to be FAIR.

Being friendly and being fair both come from believing
that other people have just as much right
to be alive and happy as we have.

The man or woman or boy or girl
who goes around gloomy,with a sour face
and is afraid that everybody else is going to make him
or her unhappy has a very hard time making friends.

There are a lot of nice people everywhere and the sooner we meet each other in a friendly way and get to know each other, the better the world will be for all of us.

Anywhere
You go with a smile and wish to like people,
you will find someone who will be glad to see you.

From Africa to the Artic Circle this is so.
People everywhere are like yourself in many ways
and most of them want to share happiness
and the good things of life with others
if you will do the same.

So..
Get up in the morning where you are
and go to school or play or work or parties
or new places glad to meet new people
and make old friend of them.

In
You own home is a good
Place to begin every dayBy being fair.

Our mother and fathers and sisters
and brothers make wonderful friends,
if we treat them fairly and
do our share to make home a happy place for everyone there.
Helping to keep it neat and clean

Sharing the work that has to be done.

Being quiet when others need peace.

And giving others just as much right as
you have to enjoy themselves with or without you—

There are all ways of being Fair
and ways to make people glad you live with them
from the time you wake in the morning
until you pleasantly, cheerfully go to bed.

Remember
the secret of fairness is sharing.

Selfish people who won’t share with others
find themselves left alone and unhappy
no matter ehat they own that could be fun.
Look out for the person who pretends
to be your friend but doesn’t want you to like anyone else.
That isn’t a friend –
it’s a selfish person who is trying to own you
and hasn’t learned to share to be happy.

Poor sports who can’t lose games without squawking
or won’t take turns are not fair

And
Neither is the lazy lump
who never share the work that
has to be done by someone.
We know now what it means to be FAIR.

and we learn all through life
that the friendly person is a happy person most of the time.

How To Behave and Why -- Chapter Honest

Honest
People tell the truth
Other people know that
when they say something is so,
they can believe it
Now that is very handy,
because if you honest and promise to do something,
others will trust you.

They will share things with you tell you secrets,
lend you money,
and help you do many of
the things you want to do ---

BECAUSE

They know that what you promise
And what you say
is true.
They can count on it.

Only
A dope will tell a lie.

One of the quickest ways to lose your friends
and to make people dislike you is to lie
Some people think they can be smart
and fool others when they tell a lie –
but sooner or later the truth usually is found out
and the liar is sorry
because he knows
he won’t be trusted or believed the next time.

This one says his baby sister broke that mirror.
Would you trust him and want him for a friend ?

NobodyKnows

what to do with a person who doesn’t tell the truth
How can you believe a word they say ?
Even if they do tell the truth part of the time,
how can you know which times they mean it
and which times they don’t ?

No – we can’t say that just one little lie doesn’t count


It counts every time and
people can’t really know us
and like us unless they can believe what we say

Every
Time we tell a lie
we mix ourselves up more

After a while almost no one will believe us –
but worse that that ----
We can’t believe ourselves or anyone else,
because we don’t really know
what the truth is any more that a turtle
And that is a stupid way to live
As anyone call tell you

Stealing
Is something honest people don’t do

Taking things that
don’t belong to you is a sure way
to get into trouble and be unhappy

Good people can’t let bad people
take things from others secretly or by force
If they did the world would be a miserable place for everyone.
Nothing we own would be safe.
Grownups who steal are put in jail in almost every country
and that is one way a person loses
all his friends for a long long time

There

Is another way to make people dislike you
that is half like lying and half like stealing ---
and it’s just as bad as either of them.
That is
CHEATING
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In playing games
Working at school
Trading things or buying or selling the person
who cheats will make enemies of those he cheats
and other people won’t like or trust him.
Nothing we get by cheating is worth what we lose with our friends.