1. This is drawn by a Standard 5 student. After an incident of earthquake, the student's parents have been worrying about him.

2. The use of yellow, blue, and green colour (the mixture of yellow and blue) have represented 3 quarters of the drawing. He mixed up blue colour that represents mother, with yellow that represents father to produce to create green colour of different tones. From within the drawing, we could comprehend that the child realized and felt that his parents love and care.

3. Frankly, we should focus on the different tones of green colour that he used. These tones actually represent certain meaning or message. The darker tone represents worries; the middle tone plays its role to achieve a harmony by combining the positive spirit and growth; whereas the lighter tone represents the strunggle in hid character development. This child has subconsciously used different tones of green to colour out several mountains. Inevitably, it relates us to the power of create, heal, regeneration, breakthrough, enlightenment, and reconstruction in life.

4. From this drawing, we could see that he had achieve a more stable and harmony state of mind with his parents and also his own effort after going through such an incident (the earthquake). Finally, he said "Everytime I pass by the same place, I saw the flat land, and I'd thought of the day the earthquake happened. The people were running for their lives and they had no where to stay. I felt that nothing could remain the same forever. I feel so unsafe and insecure. I kept on worrying about my parents and myself. Nevertheless, seeing my friends had lost their parents from this incident, I told myself that I'd cherish what I have." He hoped that all the people could be like the "sun" in his drawing, wearing shades that could prevent the sunlight from hurting their eyes, and above of all, their hearts. Even though they had to live in a hut, and grow vegetables on their own, he said that he will grow by himself, like a big tree.

5. After certain unforgettable incidents, it will more or less, left some impact on the children. Seeing what they saw, experiencing what they've gone through, most of the children just couldn't take the sorrow down. However, from this case, we could see that this child had chosen to grew from this incident, rather to let himself down. Although, we could never forget the effort his parents have given to cheer and help their child. As they always say, "Rome isn't built in one day". This goes the same to bringing up our children. We should always be there for them, show them our unconditional love, and be the ones who care for them when they needed one.

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