Any mom who’s ever been knocked on the head by a block or smashed into by a child running to her from a preschool classroom knows that kids need to be taught how to be gentle. As kids get older, knowing how to be gentle will help them maintain friendships and keep the peace at home with siblings.
If your bag of tricks is simply to repeat “be gentle” over and over again, iMOM’s Good Character Traits printable will be a great resource for you. We’ve designed a calendar to help you focus on a different trait each month, but if your child needs an extra focus on gentleness, 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 how to be gentle 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 gentleness. 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 being gentle. 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 how to be gentle is worth the hard work you’re going to put in.
Gentleness is just one of 12 character traits we want to help you build in your kids. Here are more.
