Have you ever seen, read about or heard about how a baby giraffe is born and what happens to it? First of all, a giraffe is a pretty tall animal, isn’t it? When the baby giraffe starts its journey down the birth canal, the mother goes to a spot where there are no bushes, just flat dirt.
As the baby comes out, it actually falls to that dirt. That fall is normally ten or twelve feet, and that dirt is not soft, but very hard. When the baby hits the ground, very hard I might add, it rolls over and just lies there with legs all curled up under it.
The mother positions herself over the baby to protect it from predators, and seeing none, she takes on her very strong legs and kicks the baby. It flies across the dirt head over heels. Now, I have no comprehension of what that baby giraffe is thinking at this point, but as a human, I tend to see the mother’s actions as a negative, don’t you?
If the baby does not stand up, the mother will go over and kick it again, sending it sprawling across the hard ground. This will happen over and over again until the baby finally stands up. And then what happens? The mother goes over and sends it flying again Why would she do that after her baby finally stood up?
She knows that the baby needs to learn, and it needs to remember, how to stand so it can save itself later in a time of danger. She kicks it again, not because she is having a bad hair day, but because she wants her baby to
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