How Printable Kindness Cards Can Help Teach Kids Values

How Printable Kindness Cards Can Help Teach Kids Values

All parents want to teach their kids certain values.  It’s a part of raising kids with character, right? Whether those are time-honored and traditional values or more modern values; it’s one of those things that parents do. But how do we, as modern day parents, teach these values to our kids? First, it’s a matter of figuring out what our values are. One way I’m teaching values to my 3 year old is through printable kindness cards. She can share these with others or when she’s older, I can tuck them into her lunch box or her dresser drawers. Stuck for ideas? Here are 3 ways to encourage positive values in kids. As parents, we owe it to our children to raise them to be…

How To Teach Values to Kids

How To Teach Values to Kids

In this highly digitized society, sometimes it’s difficult to discern exactly what children are learning from things like video games, television, peers, computer games, YouTube videos, etc. And sometimes it’s crystal clear. So how then, do we as parents, counteract what children are learning from society? How are parents supposed to compete with that? The simple answer is- we shouldn’t. Parents should be the first source when it comes to teaching values to children. But, that’s not always the case. Sometimes a parent might become a secondary source. However, by starting at a young age or reinforcing values consistently, a parent can become the primary source- as they should be. I feel it is, after all, part of our responsibility as parents to raise kids…