Marty Martin Karate
Black Belt Excellence for September
"Honesty"
The effects of dishonesty
on others.
Begin
this lesson by explaining to the students that someone’s dishonestly can often
affect others. Tell the following story and then explain how telling a simple
little lie can keep growing and can affect others as well.
One day Isabel told a little
lie. She wasn’t suppose to feed her dinner to her dog, Barker, but she did, and
when her mother came in and saw her plate all clean, Isabel said that she had eaten
it all. That was a little lie, wasn’t it? The dinner was chicken, and Barker
got a bone in his throat. Pretty soon he started to cough and snort and act
very uncomfortable.
“Do you know what’s wrong with
Barker?” asked Mother. “No,” said Isabel. That was another lie, wasn’t it? But
Isabel had to do it so that Mother wouldn’t know she told the first lie. Mother
looked in Barker’s mouth but couldn’t see anything. “Did Barker eat something,
Isabel?” “I don’t know Mommy.” That was another lie, wasn’t it? But she didn’t
want her mother to know about the first two lies.
Barker got worse, and Mother
took him to the animal hospital. Isabel went too. “What happened to the dog?”
asked the doctor. “We don’t know,” said Isabel. That was another lie, wasn’t
it? But if Isabel had told, then Mother and the dog doctor would know she had
lied before. The dog doctor said, “If it’s just a bone, we could get it out
with an instrument, but it might be glass, so we may have to operate.”
Isabel decided it was time to
tell the truth. She said, “It’s a bone, and I did know Barker ate it, and I
didn’t eat all of my dinner, and I did give it to Barker, and I won’t tell lies
anymore, because if you tell one, you might have to tell more and more.” Isabel
started to cry, but her mother loved her and she decided she really would tell
the truth from then on.
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