Life Skills & Value Education – CLASS-II – UNIT- 8 Learning to Apologize

Discuss in Class
In the activity above, we discussed how the person gets angry with or shout at, feels. Discuss in the class how you would feel if you get annoyed with someone unreasonably.

Let’s Read

Amit enjoyed painting beautiful pictures. He would spend hours on his canvas
and paint beautiful flowers, trees, forests and gardens. Even today, he had
been working on a bunch of flowers for hours. As he dipped his brush in red to
colour the flower, his sister came running.”Brother, brother!” she shouted.
“Please paint the flowers blue… I like
blue,” she insisted.

“No Anu,” scorned Amit, “there will be no blue flowers, these are red and orange.” They continued to argue about the same.
“Brother please,” insisted Anu.
“No,” replied Amit.
Anu began to stamp her feet. She began to get louder. “Please brother,
you never listen to me,” she shouted.

“I always listen to you,” said Amit, “but today I am not going to listen to you. It is my painting, I will make it with the colours I like.”
Anu began to fume. She was getting red with anger. Amit did not pay attention.

He was about to touch the canvas with his brush when Anu tugged hard at his shirt. Amit was very angry and as he turned to free his shirt, the palette bounced from his hand and hit the
canvas. The canvas now seemed like a rainbow of colours. Amit’s beautiful painting was destroyed.
Tears welled up in his eyes. Anu gasped and ran out of the room before Amit could say anything.
In the evening, Anu came to Amit’s room. He wouldn’t speak to her at all. Anu became very sad.
That night Anu was crying in her room. Her mother came up to her and asked, “What is wrong, Anu? Why are you crying?”
“Mother, please don’t get angry with me,” Anu narrated her story in between sobs. “Come,” said her mother lifting her up from the bed. “Let us go to Amit’s room. You can tell him that you are sorry.”

Anu and her mother went to Amit’s room. Amit was busy finishing his homework. Anu went up to Amit and apologized, “I am sorry for spoiling your painting, I didn’t mean to! I really like your paintings.”
“I promise I will never trouble you when you are painting again,” she continued with tears in her eyes.
Amit too had tears in his eyes and he immediately hugged his little sister. He too apologized, “I know you didn’t mean to do it. I am also sorry for being angry at you.”
And as they talked, their mother brought for them a huge bowl of strawberry ice cream. Amit and Anu shared the ice cream.

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