Its too Valuable!

Ved's "Show and Tell" was coming up at the Y summer camp last Thursday. On the morning of, as he was brushing his teeth, I enquired,"What are you taking for show and tell, Ved?"

Ved shrugged his shoulders to say he wasn't sure. After finishing with breakfast, I asked him to look through his toy box to see if he could find something to take to camp. I noticed that he was not having luck with ideas, so I suggested, "What about your fishing game?". "Mommyyyyyy, that's not interesting!!!!!!". "Okay, then how about your Spiderman puzzle?". "Booooooring", said Ved quickly.

I rounded up his swimming trunks and lunchbox for the camp while Ved continued to look through his toy box. As we were running late for camp, I blurted out my final suggestion,"Ved, what about your 3-D pictures and glasses. I think that's cool. Your friends will like that". "I can't take that to school: it is too val-uuuuu-ble", said Ved. "What do you mean?", I asked, especially having observed his stress on the letter u.
"Mommy, val-u-ble means important....Its too important. The Y camp kids won't know how to take special care of my 3-D picture", answered Ved.

I was amused because I recognized that Ved was essentially repeating my words which he had himself failed to follow, which was to "take care of his things". However, he had wanted to hold his friends to a high standard. "At least, the lesson stuck in his mind", I thought. Unable to come up with an alternative, he finally agreed to share his 3D glasses and picture with Y campers.

When I picked him up from Y-Camp later that evening, I learnt that he had only passed around his 3-D glasses to his friends that day. Apparently, he could not find his 3-D picture. It was safely tucked away in his backpack!!!