Lifelong learning: it could have been worse

I have several little children in my house and we enjoy our evening reading time together. One of our favorite books right now is called “It Could’ve Been Worse,” by A.H. Benjamin and Tim Warnes. The book is about a little mouse who is returning home to his mother, after a day out exploring. On the way home he encounters some trouble. Each time he is faced with a situation he grumbles and complains “why me?”

What little mouse is unaware of, is that each of these seven situations he faces throughout the book, could have been much worse for him. For instance, as little mouse is...