Teach your Children to Serve and Spread Some Love this Valentine’s Day
By Brittany
It’s no secret that we live in a world where we are encouraged to think of ourselves as often as possible. There are entire books devoted to the subject, appropriately titled things like The Me Generation and The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. My kids are particularly fond of The Minosaur, a children’s book that paints a fairly accurate picture of the “mine, mine, mine” attitude of today’s children.
There’s article after article that claim putting your own happiness first is the only way to live and that being selfish isn’t rude, but that it’s necessary.
I disagree.
In fact, I am on a mission to curb that type of attitude in my own children. I want to teach them that doing kind things for other people without being asked first, leads to happiness. Ultimately, that life isn’t about just them and that people need our help. It’s this type of thinking that I believe will fill our world with more love and less of that snarky hate we’ve been seeing in abundance lately.
So, what’s the best way we can implement a service-oriented attitude in our children? Here are four ideas:
