The Teaching Moment

Little Arianna, so small and so young, she's hardly even a speck on the canvas of life. She has so much in front of her yet to come, so much life to live and so many choices to make. How will she handle the rigors of a 21st century world in a fast-paced, dog eat dog world where only the strong survive and the weak become mere pawns in corporate America's chess game of more, more, more? Who will show her the way, so she can avoid the painful thorns and weeds that life presents along the way?

Fortunately, this little girl has a big brother. He is the one who will blaze the trail of life leaving a wide path in his wake. He will go where no brother has gone before in his quest to teach and nurture his new companion. It's his role to teach her that dessert tastes best before dinner, that PB&J is far superior to a nasty ol' bologne sandwich, that farting noises are always funny and that silverware is always optional.

In fact, Little Man takes his new role so seriously that he has already had some one-on-one teaching sessions with little Arianna. His first topic of discussion- the proper eating of a birthday cake. Realizing that Arianna is so young and inexperienced he decided it best to actually show her the correct technique and not just tell about it. It's just as they say, "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; but teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." Little Man couldn't agree more.