The child can't wait to try again and see how far he or she can go this time. The pride and confidence are really building. But sometimes the results are not so positive. Now the pride of the child is hurt. The tears come and the absolute refusal to get back on the bicycle.
Nobody has to teach a child how to be proud or how to react when pride is hurt.
It just comes naturally. When there is pride from success, there is very often the desire to keep going and to try harder or to try more things. But when pride is hurt, the results are so different. There is the refusal to try again or the sulking and the stubbornness. In the first reading today we hear of the pride of the Israelites.