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Ezee Pezee<br />

S kills<br />

10<br />

10<br />

Decision<br />

Making<br />

<strong>Yes</strong>? <strong>No</strong><br />

for<br />

SMART KIDS


Preface<br />

Do you know that you make many decisions in a day?<br />

The last time you took out your toys and played with them, you<br />

took out one special toy, maybe the toy train, and played with it.<br />

You took a decision there.<br />

When you watch television, you make another decision.<br />

It does not take you a moment even to make this decision. Before<br />

you realise you have already pressed the TV remote and switched<br />

on, let’s say Pokemon, for example. You love watching the cartoon<br />

show. That is the why this decision was fast and easy.<br />

But sometimes when we decide to do something because we love<br />

doing it, we may have to pay a price. It can turn out to be a bad<br />

decision. Therefore, don’t wait anymore and find out how to make<br />

good and smart decisions.<br />

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Table Of Content<br />

1. Neil Goes for Cycling 5-11<br />

2. Neil Says “NO” to Basketball 12-18<br />

3. How Did Neil Decide 19-28<br />

4. Choosing What Works For You 29-36<br />

5. How It Worked For Julie 37-40<br />

6. Steps for Good Decision 41-52<br />

7. Good Decisions, Bad Decisions 53-58<br />

8. Why Good Decisions 59-63<br />

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1<br />

When Neil<br />

goes for Cycling<br />

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It was Sunday afternoon and Neil was going over<br />

his maths lessons. He had a test in class the next<br />

day. The maths teacher was going to test them<br />

for fractions. The test was important because the<br />

results would be counted in the final assessment<br />

at the end of the school year.<br />

Neil usually does well in the class; he is among the<br />

top students in his class. His teachers love him for<br />

that and his friends admire him because he is good<br />

in studies.<br />

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On Sunday, as Neil was doing a sum of fraction for<br />

practice, he thought he heard Anita calling him<br />

from his gate.<br />

“Neil, are you coming with us for a ride?”<br />

Neil pushed back his chair and walked to the<br />

window. He saw Anita and Jack on their bicycles<br />

at the gate.<br />

“Wait a minute, I am coming,” he told them.<br />

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Neil closed the window, came back to his table,<br />

shut his maths notebook, put on his sneakers and<br />

he left with his bicycle. The three friends went<br />

riding near the lake in their neighborhood. They<br />

had a great time together that afternoon. They<br />

raced one another, they stopped to watch the<br />

ducks swim in the lake and they rode again.<br />

It was late by the time Neil came home.<br />

His mother was upset that he was out so long.<br />

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“Don’t you have a test tomorrow? Have you<br />

practiced your fractions,” she asked him.<br />

“<strong>Yes</strong>, mama, a little,” Neil replied. “I will practice<br />

some more after dinner.” When Neil opened his<br />

notebook once again and wrote down a sum, he felt<br />

heaviness in the eyelids. He had to force them open<br />

with will power. Soon the yawns kept coming one<br />

after another, he just couldn’t control them. Neil<br />

was too tired. He soon gave up the struggle and<br />

went to bed.<br />

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Neil thought he did well at the test the next day.<br />

But when the maths teacher returned the test<br />

papers, Neil saw he had left too many careless<br />

mistakes. He scored poorly in the test. Neil was<br />

very sad because he knew he would not be among<br />

the top five in class that year.<br />

“If only I had stayed home and practiced some<br />

more,” Neil thought. He clearly regretted going out<br />

for a bicycle ride the day before the test.<br />

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