The Two Buckets
The Two Buckets, tired after a day’s work, sat down to rest. One of the buckets was always grumbling. It never looked to life cheerfully.
As it rested outside the well it said to the other bucket, “I’m tiered of the life we lead. However full we are when we are drawn up out of the well, we are sent back empty again. This makes me very dissatisfied.”
The second bucket was different. It did not believe in grumbling. It always looked at life positively. It said, “That’s true. But I always look at it this way – that however empty we are when we are sent down, we are always full when drawn up.”
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Madhu is the founder and lead author of SmallKidsHomework.com, a free learning site she started in 2009. She writes the poems, fairy tales, folktales, coloring pages, and kindergarten worksheets here, many tagged to Common Core standards. She tests printables with real children and keeps everything free, with no signup needed.
