Two years ago, we visited Perth Zoo without my grand-daughter Gracie because she wasn’t born yet (Read here).
We thought the kids would surely loved the elephant show in the Zoo. As it turned out, both Nathan and Gracie were not particularly amused by the antics and tricks performed by the elephants. What these elephants could do was world of a difference compared to those elephants we saw in the Elephants Sanctuary in Chiang Mai in Thailand (Read here). Some suggested that this “failure” to bring out their optimum potential could be the result of the Aussies not wanting to exert too much stress onto the elephants in their training.
Similar to the training of the animals, the question occasionally comes to our thought in raising children is: what level of stress should be exerted onto the children so as to uncover their optimum capability. In Southeast Asian countries, we are often accused of exerting too much stress while in some western societies, could it be too little? Fortunately, we have passed that milestone and this is no longer an issue we have to confront with!
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Clearly Gracie was fascinated by the many animals she saw. But in comparison, food was still the central attraction.
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