Too Much Talking

Too Much Talking (based on a Chinese folk tale) Once there was a boy who could not stop talking. All day long, he talked and talked. He had no friends. Why?Because he always talked and never listened. Yak, yak, yak…words came from the boy's mouth all day long. The boy asked his father, " Why don't I have any friends?" He wanted so much to have friends.

His father said, " Listen, my son. Do you hear the frogs in the pond?They never stop croaking. They croak all day. They croak all night. But does anyone really hear them?" The boy agreed that nobody listened to the frogs when they croaked. “ Early tomorrow morning, the rooster will crow, " said the father. " He crows only at this time. But everyone listens to him. He wakes us all up from our sleep. ” The boy understood. From then on, he would be like the rooster—a boy of few words.