15 Life Lessons to teach your child:
- Value Education. Many of us are fortunate enough to be able to afford to send our kids to good schools. Do we even think about the children in poorer communities that are yearning to learn? Many walk barefoot to school without lunch just so they can get an education to create a better tomorrow for their families.
- Overcome difficulties. Life is filled with difficult days but its how we overcome them that matters. Get yourself up and move on, it will make you stronger.
- Appreciate teachers. Every day we learn from people around us but most importantly appreciate the one that has built your foundation.
- Admit to mistakes. Mistakes teach us life lessons and admitting to them can solve or fix a lingering problem.
- Be opened to criticism. We never stop learning. Criticism makes us better people although it hurts.
- Don’t look for wealth in money. Numbers don’t make you wealthy. Your personality, family and little things in life do. A child’s smile is worth more than your bank statement.
- Have an opinion. It’s important you share your feelings with the world.
- Forgive and move on. Life is too short to hold grudges.
- Dream BIG. Dreams keep us motivated and dreams can come true.
- Be Grateful. Every day there’s someone in a worse position than you. Be grateful for family and the things you have in front of you.
- Success doesn’t happen overnight. Don’t expect everything to be handed to you, the ladder to success is long and difficult.
- Learn to trust. Relationships are built on trust and sometimes trust can make or break a relationship.
- Help those around you. Don’t forget about the beggar on the street shivering in the cold or about the child that knocks on your window desperate for a drop of water.
- Love yourself before you love others. Be happy with who you are and don’t try to change for someone else.
- Don’t surround yourself around negative people. These are people you will encounter daily. They will try to bring you down and knock your self-esteem. Don’t let them win! The people you surround yourself with have a big impact on your life.
Today, I want you think about the person on the street who’s drooling for a slice of bread before you waste your lunch or the man sleeping on the pavement shivering at night before you complain about having no heater.
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58 comments
These are all important life lessons that we should teach our kids. This is an awesome campaign and I’m heading over there to join.
These are all such great lessons! I think as a parent one of our biggest responsibility is to teach our children how to make the most of the present so they can have the future they want and these lessons are the perfect tools to do that!
We don’t value education here, like we should. I know my girls take it for granted.
I love your list, Shan. I agree with you in that our reactions are often seen and repeated by our children. It is a shame people don’t try and conserve their energy and being a team player by following the rules are important and actions speak louder than words in regards to working together.
I particularly agree with #4 – Admit to mistakes. I think this is best taught by example. When kids see/hear their parents admitting to their mistakes, they learn that it’s OK to admit their own.
These are all great tips. I think half the problem with our world is that kids are growing up without learning most of these.
I love this. This is so everything we all need to be teaching our kiddos. So many great tips. #15 is what my oldest has recently discovered himself!
I’ve made it a point to teach these things to my kids. The world is full of too many bitter, self-entitled followers.
This is an important reminder for all of us. It’s hard to imagine something like life without electricity, but that’s a reality for so many. Thanks for the challenge to think about all of these – I respecially like #13, teaching kids to think about others more than themselves.
I always reiterate the number 6 to my kids. All of these are great and I am contiuously teaching my kids all of these.
It’s easy to do what you’ve always done. It’s not smart though if there is a crisis and once you do it a few times you adapt!
So many important lessons to teach our kids. I absolutely love being a “fun” aunt to my little nephews and I hope they learn something along the way when I take them out for our adventures.
Great advice! I couldn’t agree more! The most important one to me is Love yourself before you love others! This is one I still to this day have problems with!
Valuing education is a big one for me. I think this message really sunk in. They’re super smart now!
Love this whole list. I have bookmarked this post for later so that I can really go over them with my child :]
This is a great list. We work very hard to try to get our kids to think through these things and sometimes we make progress – sometimes we accept that there is a lot of work to do tomorrow!
Those are excellent suggestions. I agree with them all. For the most part, my kids are the best.
Great tips, I decided to take a major step towards my ids futures by sending them to a private school this year.
These are great tips. I remember when I was little teacher’s wrote ‘classroom values’ on the blackboard on day 1, too bad they do not do that anymore. As a former Special Ed teacher it saddens me how little ‘in house’ training some of the students would come to the classroom with.
These are great tips. Parents are their child’s life teachers and have to prepare them for what’s ahead. There is so much happening in the world. I can only imagine what the future generations will face
Such great trips. I always talk to my son about the value of education and dreaming big. And also respect for others.
There are a lot of great lessons here and important tips. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow, so we need to present them with the best set of morals that we can and most definitely lead by example.
These are all definitely things that a child should be taught! I know I want my daughter to lead a great life!
I feel humility, kindness and forgiveness should be at the top of the list. Everything else falls into place after.
I actually agree with you!
I always taught my kids to be kind to everyone. You never know when a smile is going to change someones whole day. These are great life lessons.
These are all excellent points. I have tried to teach my kids about being caring, helping others, and sharing what we have. I think it is very important to teach them the value of caring for others needs too.
These are some great this we should teach our kiddos! I really want my daughter to value education! It’s so important!
These are all wonderful things to teach kids! I think a lot of adults could stand to read this, lol!
Be open to criticism is a beautiful trait to teach. This list is so motivational, and I need to make sure I teach my son these.
These are all really great lessons. I try to teach my children to be kind, whether it’s smiling, holding a door open or paying it forward.
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