Willingness to care, provide assistance and mutual assistance are good moral qualities of a person. Children need to be told about them. It's good when parents think about it and try to instill it in their child. Literary works of children's writers can be good helpers in this.
Mitrich's Christmas tree
The desire to bring joy to people is well described by Nikolai Teleshov in the story "Mitrich's Christmas tree". Hero - Mitrich - the guard of the barracks, where they brought homeless orphans. He called them "God's children." On Christmas Day, he planned a holiday for them. I cut down the tree. I began to think about how to decorate it. I went to church to ask for candle stubs so that they would please the eye like lights on a Christmas tree. But the headman did not give any cinders. The watchman rescued Mitrich, furtively poured unburned candles into his pocket.
Mitrich also bought some sweets and sausages, and a bottle of vodka. Everyone was happy and decorated the tree. At first, candies and candles were attached to the tree, but Mitrich did not find this enough. He divided the sausage and cut the bread into small slices. I tied the ribbons and hung the pieces on the tree. When it got dark Mitrich lit candle stubs. Children began to dance around the tree. For the first time in recent years, joyful laughter was heard in the barracks. Mitrich's soul was jubilant. He was proud to be able to bring joy to children. I myself was happy to tears and understood that it was important for the children, because they were left without parents and their further fate was not known. Mitrich wanted his children to remember his tree for the rest of their lives.
Smart granddaughter
Help and mutual assistance, based on ingenuity, sounds in the tale of A. Platonov "Smart granddaughter".
My grandparents had a granddaughter Dunya. She is smart and diligent and caring. The grandmother is dead. Dunya understood that her grandfather missed her. One day my grandfather went to town on business with a neighbor. At the inn, grandfather's horse gave birth to a foal. In the morning, he and a neighbor saw him under the cart. The neighbor began to prove that this was his foal, although he had a gelding, not a mare. They argued for a long time, but there was nothing to do - they went to court to the king.
The tsar loved to make fun of people and, before judging, he asked the debaters three riddles. The grandfather was sad and went home. Dunya noticed the sadness of her grandfather. He told her about the dispute and about the tsar's riddles. She was not taken aback and figured out what to answer to the king.
Grandfather came to the king, said the answers. The king was surprised and asked who gave him such answers. Grandfather told about Dunya, which greatly interested the king. He ordered her to come to him. Dunya was quick-witted, resourceful and courageous. She came and talked to the king. He listened to the girl and did as she said.
They released the horses and the foal. The foal immediately ran to its mother. This was the end of the dispute. So the granddaughter rescued her grandfather and helped to defend the foal. The Tsar did not like this, he got angry and sent evil dogs after his grandfather and granddaughter. The grandfather drove the dogs away, hugged the granddaughter to him and said that he would not give her to anyone, he would save and protect from all adversity.
Filial duty
The desire to help a loved one can be traced in the story of Kuramshina "Filial Duty".
Mother - Raisa - a woman with a difficult fate. At the age of 14, she ran away from her parental home. In protest, she joined the hippies, looking for a good and easy life. She gave birth to a son early, raised him without a father, survived as best she could. She did not have a decent education, skill, skills. Her only skill is to command men.
She wanted a wealthy and easy life. I met a foreigner Michael. He helped her for several years and provided her with a beautiful life. But old age came and a fatal disease - malfunctioning of the kidneys. An operation and a donor kidney were required. Raisa knew that if a kidney donor was not found, she would die.
The son guessed about his mother's illness. Once he found a hospital card and realized that he had to help her - to donate one kidney and save his mother. He overcame his fear of being left with one kidney. He understood that his mother's illness was fatal, and she would not see her grandchildren if she died. He also coped with a childish resentment against his mother. After all, she did not show maternal care for him. She often threw him into the care of relatives, because she wanted to arrange her personal life.
Maxim acted nobly and decisively. I fulfilled my filial duty to my mother.
Home
Willingness to help in trouble and not leaving in danger is well described in N. Teleshov's story "Home". It tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy Semka, who fled home.
The boy's parents died, and he was transported to another village. He escaped from there. He felt bad there. He missed his father and mother, his native village, the river and friends.
On the way, Semka was spared and fed by the inhabitants of the nearby villages. One day the boy came to the river. This river seemed familiar to him, he remembered his native river Uzyupka, and it seemed to him that on the other side of the river there was his native village Beloe.
A shuttle was sailing along the river. Semka asked the man to transport him to the other side. The man in the shuttle turned out to be angry and unfriendly, he asked for money from the boy. Semka faced heartlessness. He felt bitter and lonely, he wanted to die.
Semka was on the road all summer. Closer to autumn, he met an unknown grandfather. The boy told him about himself, and his grandfather only said that he was "unknown" and he had no home and no homeland. Grandpa turned out to be a fugitive convict.
Soon Semka caught a cold and fell ill. He had a fever. He was delirious. Grandpa realized that the boy was really bad. He took care of the boy: he warmed him up, shared food, supported him while walking. Little remained to the city.
Semka woke up in a hospital bed, remembered the unknown grandfather, looked for him. Going to the hospital window, I saw a line of prisoners chained up. Among them was his faithful grandfather.
Crying, Semka realized that his grandfather had saved him at the cost of his freedom, that maybe he would never meet such a faithful friend.
Such stories will teach the child to understand why to help and why to respond to someone else's misfortune. He will know that mutual assistance, ingenuity and resourcefulness are valued in society.
