For a lot of kids, kindness comes naturally and fades as we become adults. But what if today’s parents put an extra focus on teaching kids kindness? What if we treated kindness with as much importance as hard work and intelligence? We’d be setting our kids up to live in a better world.
Teaching kids kindness isn’t hard, but it’s something that takes being intentional. iMOM’s Good Character Traits printable is a good starting point. We’ve designed a calendar to help you focus on a different trait each month, but if your child needs an extra focus on kindness, this printable can be used at any time of the year. It includes a definition you can cut out and hang on the fridge or the mirror in your child’s bathroom (or both). There’s also a Bible verse to offer direction and encouragement.
Part of teaching kids kindness is having discussions about the trait and how it relates to life, so we’ve included a conversation starter question to dig deeper. It’s guaranteed to help your child think differently about kindness. We’re so confident that these tools along with our calendar and its accompanying stickers will lead to great things for your child that the printable page includes a reward certificate with space for you to write how you saw your child showing kindness. If you really want to reinforce the lesson, you can print a handful and give a certificate to your child weekly. And because we know kids love rewards, each Good Character Trait printable comes with a coupon to give your child. Use our reward, or come up with one of your own that you know will be a big incentive. Teaching kids kindness is worth the hard work you’re going to put in.
Kindness is just one of 12 character traits we want to help you build in your kids. Here are more.
