Posted on 01/07/2024 10:44:22 AM PST by aspasia
Many parents put a lot of focus into teaching their kids about cleaning their rooms, acting responsibly and doing homework. These things are important, but there’s one thing that many of us are completely forgetting about: how to enjoy life.
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Children can easily get the wrong message about happiness In my experience, people are happiest when their life includes some type of meaningful, productive activity. Unfortunately, we are constantly being bombarded with the message that happiness comes from consumption.
When advertisers tell us to “treat” ourselves to their products, they are trying to make us believe that buying things is the ultimate reward, that we will be happy only if we buy a fancier car or a bigger house.
How do you fight back? Don’t make it a habit to take your children to stores where they can go running around saying “I want this” and “I want that.”
Even if your child isn’t directly exposed to a lot of advertising, they may be exposed to the culture that this advertising has created. Their friend shows them some incredible new toy they got that the friend will play with for the next week until they get another toy, for example, or they attend a birthday party at which a friend is showered with gifts.
The happiest kids value experiences over material things Don’t encourage your child to believe that having things brings happiness by giving them too many gifts.
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However, telling the truth is an adventure. Telling little white lies are the slippery slope to creating false realities. Our government prefers to spread false realities. Our society at large is afraid of truth.
“However, telling the truth is an adventure. Telling little white lies are the slippery slope to creating false realities.”
Again, your opinion when it comes to raising children, but I do know a lot of parenting ‘experts’ agree with you. But I can only say what worked for me.
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