JamesBaldwin，anauthor，oncesaid，"Childrenhaveneverbeenverygoodatlisteningtotheirelders，buttheyhaveneverfailedtoimitatethem．"Lookingback，Ihavefoundthiswas（41）___．Asachild，Iwasnotthebest（42

　　James Baldwin，an author，once said，"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders，but they have never failed to imitate them．"Looking back，I have found this was （41）___．As a child，I was not the best（42）___，but I did learn valuable lessons by （43）___my elders．

　　While in elementary school，I was caught in a （44）___．A classmate had a quarrel with me because of some （45）___and he even threatened to beat me．I didn't know how to（46）___ him and I was even （47）___ to go to school．

　　Then my father （48）___my trouble and decided to go to school（49）___me．I wasn't sure what he was planning to do，but I felt （50）___ around him．When at school，he talked（51）___to me and the boy I had issues with．He explained that we needed to solve our differences and learn to（52）___ our friendship．He told us a （53）___ in which he had resolved（化解） the differences by an earnest talk and made friends with another man．Then he （54）___ and we had to solve the problem ourselves．There we stood，face to face without a word．I broke the （55）___first and a heated discussion followed．Gradually，both of us（56）___ we had a lot in common apart from the differences．At last，as my father （57）___，we extended our hands and put our differences （58）___．It was at that moment that a lifetime friendship formed．

　　What my father said did not impress me much but he set a good example of （59）___this kind of problem．This is a reminder that it is more effective to teach children by our（60）___．

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