Many parents pay attention to certain behaviors of children and teach them how to be responsible, how to arrange the room and keep it tidy, how to do homework, etc. These are important things, but there is something that parents completely forget: how to enjoy life!
There is a difference between enjoying life as a young child and preparing to enjoy life as an adult. Children can easily get the wrong message about happiness. These days, experts say, people are being bombarded with the message that happiness comes from consumption.
In this way, they make us believe that buying things is the ultimate reward, that we will only be happy if we buy a nicer car or a bigger house.
How to act? Don't make it a habit to take children to stores where they can run around saying “I want this and that.” The happiest children value experiences over material things.
Don't encourage your child to believe that having things brings happiness by giving him lots of gifts.
The concept that you express your love for someone by giving them a gift is a nice idea that used to work pretty well, but so many kids get so much stuff these days that it quickly becomes redundant. Whenever you have birthdays or dates, bake a cake at home, make a handmade card, recite poetry, etc.
Play games with children to show them how beautiful it is to do simple things. Go to a museum with them. Read in their presence.
If you can teach children the value of these little things, their chances of happiness will increase immeasurably when they are older.
Source: CNBC
