Life lessons learned from experience or from instances can be good or bad, you would obviously like to teach those good life lessons to your kids. It is said “Learning begins right from the parents,” kids are very innocent and they grasp what they see; they hear; they observe. Your kids are like a lump of plain clay and an artisan is going to create a sculpture with it. Here, your kid’s surroundings play the role of the artisan.
Importance of Life Lessons for your kids
Of course, we do not have any control over our kid’s future, but we can do our best by inculcating few life lessons in their mind. These moral values will surely be helpful for them to achieve what they want from life during their adult age. Below are a few moral values that your kids should learn at an early age:
To love our Earth
As per scientific research, our earth will become poisonous within 30-40 years from now and we will have to wear oxygen masks every time to survive. The only solution is to eliminate this major problem is to love our Earth and environment by planting more trees. We can educate our kids to plant a tree on their birthday every year. They can grow it at home, in a flowerpot, in the nearest park or in school, as per their choice. This lesson applies to adults too!
Save Natural Resources
The conservation of natural resources has utter importance these days. Everything we use in our day to day lives is taken from nature directly or indirectly. Your kids must know the significance of natural resources and they should use them wisely. To teach this, we will have to set examples in front of them. For instance, turning off the tap to save water when not in use or turn off the engine when in traffic to save fuel.
Eat Healthy and Exercise
We cannot emphasize how important is it to eat healthy food. If your kids learn this life lesson at an early age, this would help them to keep sickness at the corner. You can make your kids happy by few occasional junk food treats, but it should not be the way of life. Exercise comes hand-in-hand with healthy food intake habits. You should advise your child to embrace exercise at an early age. Every kid is fond of outdoor games; we should observe what he is really interested in. It can be badminton, tennis, cricket or any other game. Outdoor games somewhere replaces exercise but exercise has altogether different pros. Your kids must acknowledge the importance of exercise to get good health in adulthood.
Mistakes are good but don’t repeat them
We all are human and “to err is human”. Your kids should learn this before their teenage that mistakes are part of life lessons and they differentiate humans from robots. Mistakes are good, however, they should learn from their mistakes so that these are not repeated the next time. We get despond over mistakes and rejections but these actually help us to evolve. This life lesson is very important for your kids as it will help to boost up their confidence later.
You are What you Think of Yourself
Sometimes kids have their own imaginations and they start thinking about themselves in a different way. For an instance, if your kid is chanting his rhymes in the front of the class and another student smiles in a mocking way; your kid might think that he will never speak in front of other now onwards. Here it’s our responsibility to help our kid get rid of that shitty thought from his mind. Your kids must know that he will eventually become what he thinks of himself.
Challenges are good
Your kids should learn that challenges are good. Accepting challenges from the core of that tiny heart will develop new traits in your kid. For instance, you must not rush to his rescue when he draws terribly in his drawing book. Let them do their best and then challenge them to do it better the next time. You should challenge them with lots of affection, it will also create good bonding between you and your child.
Be grateful
You must educate your kids to say “Thank you” when somebody shows kindness on them or on their family. Your kids should count blessings that they have. They should acknowledge the help of others and should be grateful for that. They should also reciprocate the same when needed. Your kids should be grateful to the God for the possessions they have.
Learning never ends. Since our childhood to our old age, we keep learning a lot of things. There is an abundance of available sources in the world for knowledge. The above social life lessons are only a few but our next generation should learn them at an early age. There are many other moral life lessons and those are essential for your kids to learn. Do you have more lessons to teach your kids? Please share them in the comments section below.
