A single mother whose husband had passed away received a phone call at work from the counselor at her son's school.The counselor called to ask the mother to come in to meet with her regarding her son's behavior in class. Apparently, when her son got around his friends, he started acting severely. After meeting with the counselor, the mother requested a leave of absence from work, and drove her son six straight hours to her father's farm in the northern country. When they arrived at the farm, the ten year old son saw his mother talking to his grandfather out front. His grandfather said, "Son, come over here," and he brought him out away from the house. He pointed to this wide open field where there were big beautiful horses of all colors running free, then he brought him in back along the side of the barn where there was a pigsty-pigs of all shades were lying in the mud and eating slop. The grandfather said to the boy "you will work the whole summer with both the pigs and the horses," and when you go back to school, choose wisely who you decide to run with.
Story by: Coach James Joseph.
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