The garden story frog and toad4/3/2023 ![]() ![]() But then, I found myself checking the daily changes in my balance after seeing a breaking financial headline. It started innocently I was getting a few questions about the Schwab website from my clients so I thougth I’d log in to my personal account in order to experience the same thing my clients see when they log in. I’ve found myself logging into the Charles Schwab app on my phone to check my portfolio balance. For many of us, just like Toad, waiting patiently can be the hardest part. You have to do the upfront work of diversifying your investment options, managing your costs and keeping taxes to a minimum. Much like planting a garden, growing a portfolio can be hard, too. Toad was missing the part about waiting patiently. Not because you have to shout at your seeds, read them stories, sing them songs and read them poems. A garden is hard work because you have to till the soil, plant and water the seeds, pull the weeds and wait patiently. But perhaps not for the reasons he had in mind. “Yes,” says Toad, “but you were right, Frog. “At last,” shouts Toad, “my seeds have stopped being afraid to grow!” “And now you will have a nice garden, too,” says Frog. The story ends when Frog stops by again and wakes Toad up to show him the little green plants that are coming up out of the ground. Finally, feeling hopeless and tired, Toad falls asleep. Over the next few days, he sings songs to his seeds, reads them poems, and plays music for them. But later that night, Toad decides that his seeds must be afraid of the dark, so he goes to his garden with candles and reads his seeds a story. ![]() He tells Toad to “leave them alone for a few days and let the sun shine on them and the rain fall on them.” Then his seeds will start to grow. Even though Frog warned him that a garden is “hard work,” Toad becomes impatient, and he shouts, even louder, “NOW SEEDS, START GROWING!”Īt some point, Frog hears all the commotion and stops by to tell Toad that he is shouting too much and that his seeds are probably afraid to grow. He then puts his head close to the ground and shouts, “now seeds, start growing!” The seeds still do not start to grow. Immediately after planting his seeds, Toad says, “now seeds, start growing,” but his seeds do not start to grow. In the story, Toad sees Frog’s garden and likes it so much that he decides to plant one for himself. It’s from Lobel’s book Frog and Toad Together. Recently, I was reading a story to my kids called The Garden. The stories chronical the adventures of Frog and Toad and have much to say about the value of friendship. Each book contains five silly, yet profound, stories about a tall, green, easy-going frog and a short, more serious, and sometimes neurotic, toad. When I was a kid, some of my favorite books were from the Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel. ![]()
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