I checked my daughter's exercise book and saw a different handwriting and she told me her classmate helped her to copy the note as she couldn't meet up and she went further to narrate how this girl has been kind to her.

On our way home we saw the little 9-year-old girl standing by a fence waiting and as soon as my daughter pointed at her I stopped the car. I called on her and she came, I stretched my hands out to shake her hands and I thanked her for being nice to my child then I waved at her then we left.

The ideal my daughter will learn from that scenario is how to show appreciation to people but there is much more.

I wanted her to see that I trust her judgment in her kind of friends, that she means a lot to me to the extent I had to greet her little friend, that I have her back and lastly, her friend will feel a sense of importance.

I am gradually becoming chums with her classmates and I wave and smile at them like a child once they see me.

There are several ways to build a child's self-esteem.

Please feed a fasting person today.

Mariam Ashraff