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When giving directions, try to limit them to two tasks per set of directions and see if the child can manage it. Try not
to raise your voice with each succeeding repetition of requests or directions; it will interfere with the processing time
the child needs to translate your words into action. If things aren’t working out, and you’re feeling “down”,
find a good support person or make whatever changes are necessary in your life. In that way, enthusiasm will return to your
relationship and both you and your child will know which way is “up”.
Excerpts from the Golden Rule by H.T.D. Rost:
1. In the Mahabharata, “Do not to others what ye do not wish done to yourself. And wish for others too, what ye deisre
and long for, for yourself. This is the whole of Dharama, heed it well.” p. 28.
2. In the Yoga-Sastra, “In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard
our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undersirable to us if inflicted
upon ourselves.” p. 34.
3. In the Mataka-bhatta Jataka, “Who knoweth this great Truth - that Life is one in all, and how all pain originates.
He hurteth not hisone hand with his other, knowing that he himself will suffer pain.” p. 39.
4. In the T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien, “Pity the misfortunes of others; rejoice in the well-being of others;
help those who are in want; save men in danger; rejoice at the success of other; and sympathize with their reverses, even
as though you were in their place.” p. 46.
5. In the Analects of Confucius, “When you go abroad, behave to everyone as if you were receiving a great guest;
employ the people as if you were assisting at a great sacrifice, not to do to others as you would not wish done to yourself,
to have no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family.” p. 51.
6. In the Avesta by Zarathustra, “That which is good for all and anyone, for whomsoever - that is good for me..What
I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true Law. p. 56.
7. In Leviticus 19:18, “You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but
you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. p. 67.
8. In Matthew 22:37-40, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” p. 73.
9. In the Sukhanan-i-Muhammad, “The most righteous of men is the one who is glad that men should have what is pleasing
to himself, and who dislikes for them what is for him disagreeable.” p. 103.
10. In the Granth, “Be thou not estranged from another, for in every heart, pervades the Lord.” p. 113.
11. In the Writings of Baha’u’llah, “O son of man! If thine eyes be turned towards mercy, forsake the
things that profit thee and cleave unto that which will profit mankind. And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose
thou for thy neighbor that which thou choosest for thyself. Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst
pride abaseth him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation.” p. 145
By Katherine Hubbard
