HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILD CONTENTMENT

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The first teacher every child have or knows isn’t their school or Sunday school teacher, but their parent.

Through your actions, reactions, and inaction, your children pick one or two lessons from you; and this forms a greater part of their upbringing.

What do you teach your children?

Whilst growing up, my parent taught us contentment. Although we had a fair share of life, we were taught to live within our means. There was no room for extravagance and they never lived their lives to please anyone. When the going was tough, they lived a simple life, and when there was abundance, we maintained and adapted to what we had.

Contentment is a state of showing satisfaction with one’s situation, possession, and status whilst living in simplicity. Although it doesn’t mean living a life of mediocrity, rather, it shows a life of moderation.

How do you teach your child contentment?

1. By giving them more of what they need, than what they want.

2. By inculcating the virtue of moderation instead of extravagance.

3. By making them to understand that life is governed by time and season.

4. By letting them to know that a person’s life doesn’t consist of what they have or do not have.

5. By modelling what contentment and godliness are through your actions, reactions and inactions.

6. By delaying gratification till appropriate time.