Tip for parents: how to teach children to share
How to teach your children to share:-
“The miracle is this; the more we share, the more we have” – Leonard Nimoy.
We share the earth with humans and other species. Sharing is a vital life lesson that we must teach our children. It is our duty to imbue ourselves with values that encourage cooperation and giving from childhood. Don’t force them, show them sharing models. Children are possessive of their bags, clothes, colors, accessories, food, even their parents. When the second child is born, children do not like to share their parents with their siblings. If you find it difficult, seek help from teachers, schools, classrooms and various educational centers. Model the benefits of sharing through bedtime stories, examples, poems, your thoughts on donors, group activities, positive reinforcement, sharing games, positive reinforcement, songs, etc. Of all, my favorite way is through storytelling about sharing and cooperation. Telling stories will help them imagine the characters and will enhance their inventiveness and listening skills.
Here are two moving stories:-
1. Once a young Tanishka went to a small town with a priest. In the town the people were quarrelsome and angry; when they asked her for some proposals, she immediately suggested that they stay together forever. When they arrived in another town, the atmosphere was exactly the opposite. Loving, affectionate, cheerful and cooperative people. The priest wounded them and advised them to leave their village and disperse. The surprised girl Tanishka asked the priest why she gave them different advice. The priest said, “My child, a few days ago, I read Buddha’s great words that said: “Thousands of candles can be lit with a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness is never diminished by being shared,” he added, and “Grummative people can never share happiness, only joyful people can.” He concluded that sharing not only belongings and possessions, but also joy multiplies satisfaction in the long run.
2. Here’s a greedy prince story that I’m sure we all must have read in our childhood. A greedy little prince had all the toys he wanted but he was never satisfied. He even wanted children from a poor family to share their toys with him. Once, a toy maker came to his palace and promised to invent wonderful toys for him, in fact, a new toy every day. The prince was excited and excited, but the toy maker asked the prince to promise that he would play with each toy every day, to which he spontaneously agreed. During the first weeks, the prince was very happy because he had a new toy every day and he also played with the older ones. But after a few months, the collection kept growing and he had too many toys to play with. He had little time to sleep, eat, talk, bathe, play outdoors. In fact, he couldn’t have enough time to play with many toys, which made the toy maker angry. One day, he noticed that some poor children were happily playing with his toys. He called them to his palace and decided to share his toys with those most in need, even asking them to take them home. The children were delighted and the price too. The prince was now enjoying his few toys and concentrating on other things.
Moral of the stories: – “Happiness is not so much in having as in sharing. We make a living with what we receive, but we make a life with what we give” – Norman Mac Ewan.
