Purpose: Learning to live with our limitations.

Materials: A balloon.

Lesson: Most children, at one time or another, have come to a parent with a balloon and asked, "Please blow this up for me." Then they would stand back and watch -- (begin to blow up the balloon) -- while Mom or Dad blew, and blew, and blew. (While you talk continue to blow up the balloon.) And the balloon would get bigger, ... and bigger, ... and bigger, ... until ... BANG! (If the balloon does not burst from the air you have put into it by this time, use a small pin to burst it.)

Now, you knew that this balloon would burst sooner or later if I continued to force air into it. You knew that there was a limit to the amount of air that this balloon could hold. I knew it too, but I went beyond the limit.

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