
This is a scarf my daughter received for the Girl Scouts cookie sales. Depending how much sales you made, there were many layers of prizes. At today's meeting, everybody received her prize. Hers was the participant award. Quite a few girls received a cute stuffed animal. My daugher of course didn't. She was such a drama queen, super miserable version, when leaving the site. Watching us, one of the mothers offered that she could give us the stuffed animal which she bought in advance, in case that her daughter did not get it. It was very sweet of her, but I declied the offer very nicely. Even though I wonder if it is a good practice to reward girls at this age depending on the sales record, sales are sales and results are results. It's life, right? So I explained her looking into her eyes; "It is such an easy thing to drop by in a store and get you a stuffed animal, which costs probably only 3 dollars, but I would not want to do that, since it does not do you any good. You will experience this kind of disappointment once in a while in your life, and it is okay to be sad for a while, but you just cannot be controlled by the sadness for ever. You could work harder next time on the cookie sales to get the prize, or you could save up money to buy it yourself. But today you don't get it, and that is very fair. I would not get you the stuffed animal today, since I truly love you. " When we got home, she slammed the car door and got out, but by the time she was in the house, she was smiling.