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Folktales on Unconditional love and Things that matter - Team Parentcircle Strap: In our series, ‘valuable lessons from invaluable stories’, we give you two stories that tell why you should unconditionally love and only look at things that matter. 1. Unconditional Love Accepting others for what they are, not only makes your child more social but also smooths the path for her future relationships. By conquering the art of unconditional love—the one without ifs and buts—you child learns happiness and contentment. When happiness abounds, it fills her surroundings with kindness, compassion and more happiness! Tell the short story, Sheba and the Monkey to your child to show what unconditional love is. Sheba and the Monkey A beautiful jungle …show more content…

She then looks at the babies, one by one. She looks at a fawn's doe eyes and offers a prize. A cute lion cub gets another prize. Next comes a cuddly baby elephant which instantly earns a huge prize. A baby monkey and her mother are next in line. The queen instantly calls the guards and asks them to send the monkeys away. She tells them the monkey baby is the ugliest of all and it doesn't deserve any prize. Hearing this, the monkey baby starts to wail. The mother monkey gently shushes the baby and tells, “What a foolish queen who can’t see your beauty! Who needs her silly prize? My dear child, you are more precious than anything under the sky. You are the light of my life. You are my jewel!” The baby monkey understands her mother’s pure love that doesn’t look at …show more content…

He has more gold than anyone in the world. Of all the things, he loves his gold the most. He has a daughter named Daphne who loves her father dearly. Daphne finds it hard to understand her father's obsession with gold. For her, spending time with each other and in nature give tremendous joy. One day, an angel arrives at King Midas' palace. Midas has helped an old man in the past. So, the fairy offers a wish as a token of gratitude for his kindness. The king is elated and wishes that his touch will turn anything into gold. The bemused angel asks him to consider his wish carefully. On Midas's insistence, the angel grants him the strange wish. The next morning, Midas is delighted to find that his touch is indeed turning everything into gold. Like a child, he goes around and around, touching tables and chairs, turning them into gold. The king is mesmerised by this alchemy until he goes for his breakfast. When his touch turns the water and bread to gold, the king realises his mistake. Daphne comes to console him, but upon his touch, she too turns in to a golden

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