I'm trying to step it up a notch at home and want to select one characteristic each month to focus on. This month will be thanksgiving and growing a thankful heart. I introduced it last night and they had fun writing their daily graitude on the kitchen white board. I've stewed on it overnight, and I'm going to have the kids make a poster that says growing an attitude of gratitude, and I'm precutting paperchain links so each day they can write down what they want to give thanks for and link it onto their growing chain. Hopefully we'll end up with paperchains tacked up around the kitchen ceilling. I'm going to focus on commending them with they show gratitude and say thanks, and have them write some thank you notes to people that touch their lives and hearts.
I'm canvassing you for thanksgiving scriptures and ideas for teaching them in a fun, accessible and interactive way. Short and sweet for young minds.
I'm asking for any other ideas for teaching graitudue and thanksgiving to young children. Books with gratitude themes? Related children's ministries?
I'm also going to wrap some boxes labeled with challenging everyday situations, talk about the possible reactions and then show how by our reactions we can choose to open the gift and find what's hidden inside (patience, forgiveness, sharing, helping etc.) and have bulbs that they can grow/blossom and give thanks for to hidden opportunity to grow beautiful characteristics. I hoping this will plant the seeds of understanding why we should give thanks in all situations.
I dont' think you need faith to teach children positive character development, but since I'm using our faith to contextualize our family's character teachings I included it in the title. I'd love to hear any and all ideas and I hope this in not misinterpreted as an exculsion...just a full disclosure of where I was going with this. And note I used the inclusive term "faith" so please dont' flame me or turn this into a debate thread.
Oh, and December will be sharing (generosity) but I haven't sussed it out yet.
I'm canvassing you for thanksgiving scriptures and ideas for teaching them in a fun, accessible and interactive way. Short and sweet for young minds.
I'm asking for any other ideas for teaching graitudue and thanksgiving to young children. Books with gratitude themes? Related children's ministries?
I'm also going to wrap some boxes labeled with challenging everyday situations, talk about the possible reactions and then show how by our reactions we can choose to open the gift and find what's hidden inside (patience, forgiveness, sharing, helping etc.) and have bulbs that they can grow/blossom and give thanks for to hidden opportunity to grow beautiful characteristics. I hoping this will plant the seeds of understanding why we should give thanks in all situations.
I dont' think you need faith to teach children positive character development, but since I'm using our faith to contextualize our family's character teachings I included it in the title. I'd love to hear any and all ideas and I hope this in not misinterpreted as an exculsion...just a full disclosure of where I was going with this. And note I used the inclusive term "faith" so please dont' flame me or turn this into a debate thread.
Oh, and December will be sharing (generosity) but I haven't sussed it out yet.
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