Chapter 01 : Loving yourself and others

Acts that show love in the community

There are many acts that show love to yourself and others in the community. Some of the acts include self-esteem and respect to other people, caring for others, protecting others and yourself against the harmful things. Other acts help people with disabilities, sick and elderly.

Acts that show love for our family members

We are responsible for showing love for our family members. Such family members include our parents, guardians, younger brothers, sisters, and other relatives.

Read the following dialogue and answer the questions that follow.

Caring for family members

There are activities done by family members that show love and care in a family.

Caring for family members with special needs

Our families are comprised of different people. These include children, youths, and adults. It is important to know their needs in order to support them.

Consider the following actions:

1. A child is cooking for her sick mother.

2. A boy is taking his younger brother to hospital.

3. A sister washes clothes of her sick younger one.

4. Children lift their disabled father and help him to sit in the wheelchair.

5. A child is giving her grandmother some drinking water.

Read the following story and answer the questions that follow.

Mr and Mrs Sheuta live in Soni Village in Lushoto District. They have three children, namely Bakari, Sharifa and Amina. Bakari is in Standard Two; Amina is in Standard Three; and Sharifa is in Standard Four. Bakari has a physical disability. Every morning, Sharifa and Amina help their younger brother to cross the road as they go to school. They do the same when they come back from school. The family also stays with their grandmother called Saufa. She is too old to see clearly. Sharifa holds her hand and accompanies her to the bathroom. She also prepares some food and drinking water for her. Amina helps her mother to cook food and wash family clothes. She also teaches Bakari how to read, write, and count.

Exercise 2

1. Which good behaviour have you learnt from this story?

2. What do you do to help family members with special needs?

3. What advice will you give to your fellow pupils who do not take care of family members with special needs?

Helping family members when they face problems

Read the following lyrics and answer the questions that follow.

Activity

Write five good acts you should do for your family members.

Nurturing your younger siblings

Look at the following pictures and answer the questions that follow.

Figure 1 : Nurturing your younger siblings and little once

Exercise 4.

1. Which acts are shown in Figure 1?

2. Which among the acts shown above do you practise at your home?

3. What other kinds of behaviour do you practise at your home?,

Acts that endanger the safety of the community

It is our responsibility to make sure that family and community members are always safe. It is important to recognize them and avoid acts that can endanger their safety. Such acts include ignoring traffic signs, engaging in child labour and joining groups that use substances such as alcohol, marijuana and the like.

Effects of unsafe behaviour on children

Different kinds of behaviour endanger the safety of children. Read the following dialogue and answer the questions that follow.

Exercise 5

1. Which kinds of behaviour endanger the lives of children?

2. What are the effects of risky behaviour on children?

3. Which kinds of behaviour among those mentioned in the dialogue above are most dangerous?

4. In your opinion, what kind of advice would the grandfather have given to the children about their safety and security?

5. How would you help your friends to avoid risky behaviour?

Exercise 6

Write TRUE for a true statement and FALSE for a false one.
1 . It is good to do to others as you would have them do to you. . . . . . . . . . .

2. Pupils should only pay attention to the instructions given by teachers. . . . . . . . . .

3. Caring is the best way to teach a lazy pupil. . . . . . . . . . . .

4. Young children, sick, and disabled people need to be attended to. . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. Family members should only help each other during difficulties. . . . . . . . . . .

6. Alcoholism and teenage sex are kinds of risky behaviour. . . . . . . . . . . .

Acts that destroy love in the community

You might have witnessed some people mistreating others. Mistreatment includes disrespecting, insulting, beating, and injuring other people. It also includes gossiping, using abusive language, cheating, and envying others.

Read the following story and answer the questions that follow.

Shukuru and Sekela are Standard Four pupils at Jitegemee Primary School. Every morning, Sekela is given some money for bus fare and upkeep. Despite being given a sufficient amount of money, Sekela lies to her parents in order to get more money. At school, she buys juice and buns and eats them alone. One day, Shukuru lost his pen and asked Sekela who had two pens to lend him one, but Sekela refused.

During the break, Shukuru likes playing with his friends outside the classroom. They all leave their bags in the classroom. However, Sekela often remains in the classroom because she does not like to play with her friends. One day during the break, Sekela peeped through the window and noticed that no one saw her. She opened Shukuru's bag and stole a ruler. After the break, Shukuru returned to the classroom and he was puzzled to see the zipper on his bag open. When he looked in the bag, he realized that his ruler was missing. He ran to the class teacher's office and reported the loss of his ruler.

The teacher went to the classroom and searched through the pupils' bags. Gosh! The ruler was hidden inside Sekela's bag. The teacher urged Sekela to stop the stealing behaviour. As a pupil, you should learn to respect properties that belong to others. Therefore, you must always do the right thing.

Obeying instructions from teachers, parents, and guardians

Read the following story and answer the questions that follow.

Mr Shokolo has a daughter called Adila. She is studying at Kirore Primary School. Mr Shokolo always instructs her daughter to fulfil her daily responsibilities before going to school and after coming back from school. Such responsibilities include cleaning the surroundings, washing utensils, fetching water as well as watering vegetables and the flower garden. Other responsibilities include washing and ironing her clothes as well as doing assignments given at school.

Every morning, Adila washes home utensils and cleans home surroundings before she leaves for school. Adila always arrives at school early in the morning, waters her flower garden and cleans the school surroundings. After school hours, Adila returns home early. She waters the garden, irons clothes, and completes assignments given by her teachers.

Adila is a well-mannered daughter such that her teachers, parents, and the community are proud of her.

Vocabulary

Child labour an act of employing a child to perform some activities usually on contract

Community members people who live in a certain area

Counselling give advice to a person on social or personal problems

Impress to make someone feel admiration and respect

Intention desire to do something

Pampering to look after someone very kindly and making him or her feel as comfortable as possible

Risky involving the possibility that something bad or dangerous may happen

Console to make someone feel better when they are feeling sad or disappointed

Exercise 8

1. What kinds of behaviour should be imitated from Adila?

2. What instructions does Adila get at home and school?

3. Why is it important to follow the right instructions that you are given?

4. How would you help your fellow pupils to follow instructions from teachers, parents, and guardians?

5. Mention three benefits of following instructions.