Help Your Kids to Enjoy the Simple Things
Simplicity is a lost art. These days, many kids can’t get through the day without watching TV, playing video games, or spending time on the computer. Others are not even content with that, wanting to go find entertainment outside the home, at the movies, the mall, or other superficial pastime. They just don’t know how to live simply.
Writing for Lifehack.org, Mike St. Pierre shares six tips for helping your kids learn to love spending quiet time at home:
1. Establish routine.
2. Give them some space.
3. Respect the quiet.
4. Be content with puttering.
5. Establish a Sabbath.
6. Practice hospitality.
Enjoying quiet time at home is a lost art. With so many distractions outside the home, and so many electronic distractions inside the home, it’s hard to teach kids to just be comfortable with themselves.
I think this list is a great start for parents to get their kids out of those bad habits, and establish skills that will help them throughout life, both spiritually and monetarily. Mike also blogs at The Daily Saint, a productivity blog with a spiritual twist that’s worth adding to your feed reader.