Bud and Flower

One day in October 1968, the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il visited the nursery of a workteam of the then Ryonghung Cooperative Farm.

As it was the time of afternoon nap, the nursery was quiet.

Comrade Kim Jong Il gazed at the sleeping children through an open window.

Watching carefully the surroundings of the nursery if there was something which might awaken the children, he said that in order to bring up the children well, nurses should enhance their sense of responsibility and role and they should pay primary attention to the management of the children’s health. 

Then he asked how many toys the nursery had. Hearing the answer, he said that nurseries should keep many toys of different kinds so as to promote the physical and intellectual growth of the children and that local-industry factories should produce many toys for children.

Presently he said to the officials that just as a healthy bud could turn to be a big and beautiful flower, children who are brought up to be healthy in their nursery and kindergarten days, they would be healthy when they have grown up and that the future of the country is guaranteed when children were brought up well, so nurses should take good care of them with maternal affection.