5 Ways to Help Children Develop Spiritual Gifts
We can help grow spiritual gifts in our children by teaching them Forgiveness and Compassion.
Developing Spiritual Gifts in Children
The Buddha’s spiritual counsel for parents was simple: to help the children to embody spiritual qualities such as generosity, responsibility, compassion, forgiveness, and appreciation.
The most important lesson parents can convey to their children is that every action has its consequences-not only the bad ones but the good ones as well. They must be the change they want to see in the world.
Our Planet needs better people, better caretakers. Better Humans.
Parents can benefit their children by training them to be more empathic, forgiving and grateful. Parents have a responsibility to install spiritual gifts as habits on their children’s radar, but it can be a challenge.
The Primary education, or the bedside manners, that parents teach children do not compare to the positive feeling of gratitude or being kind could be as part of their routine.
Behavior Researchers have found that grateful people are healthier than others in the physical, emotional and mental way.
The Habit of Forgiveness and Compassion in Children
Forgiving is an act of good faith, it means leaving behind bad things and making room for good things. Empathy, in turn, is about understanding the suffering of other people.
Do you think this is a difficult task to teach a child how to be a Good Human? It might be, but we will show you some tools for your child to develop the qualities of forgiveness and compassion and appreciation.
Five Lessons You Can Teach Your Children to Grow Their Spiritual Gifts
1. Teach by Being an Example
The better way to teach a child is a continual practice. It is also important for you to embody such qualities.
Saying thank you, please and sorry is a great way to promote real learning. Also, you may avoid complaining about the setbacks of life. Try to tell your experiences with an emphasis on personal gratitude, this will make the home environment perfect for teaching.
In most times, our children learn from our example, our attitudes and actions are the models they tend to emulate.
No doubt that parents are the role models to the children. So, whether we want it or not, our children tend to replicate us.
We are often appraised by our children, so their behavior also depends on our own.
We know that forgiveness and compassion are not as natural and straightforward concepts as they may seem.
Compassion, forgiveness can change our thoughts, our emotional intelligence, and even our prejudices. To teach your child to practice the habit of forgiveness and compassion, you must begin with your own actions.
By releasing and healing from what has brought us problems in the past, we experience how to forgive. This will cause us to have the strength to cultivate our habit in our children. Both the qualities of forgiveness and compassion are tasks that must start at home. They will need patience, understanding, acceptance and endurance.
2. Learning how to forgive and accept forgiveness
Besides being very important that your children learn to forgive, it is also essential that they learn to express themselves and to relate to people around them with sincerity.
Children need to understand the value of asking for forgiveness. Teaching to avoid making mistakes is one of the first steps. This aspect will be of great help to children.
Also, you must tell your child that he should only ask for forgiveness when it is sincere and heartfelt.
Besides being very important that your children learn to forgive, it is also essential that they learn to express themselves and to relate to people around them with sincerity.
It is not enough to ask for forgiveness whenever you commit some unlawful act and know how to apologize in some situations.
It may be necessary to explain the reasons or reasons why they have to apologize. This will make the children aware of the value of forgiveness. Knowing to ask for forgiveness will make your children more responsible and honest.
Also, once the child develops the habits of forgiving, of empathy and inner peace, they will go with him throughout life.
Offering the spiritual gift of forgiveness is an act that will make a happier child with good emotional stability, free from grudges and hurt feelings.
3. The Habit of Appreciation
To develop the habit of gratitude will be very beneficial to the child because he will feel greater satisfaction in their life. Thankfulness can broaden their future perspectives on life.
As they will have many different experiences with situations and people.
4. Awaken compassion
Teaching your child to have empathy, to be sensitive to stressful situations, is also an essential element for their spiritual growth.
It is common knowledge that the more children feel empathy and compassion, the better people will become in the future. Introducing these habits are something that should be gradually done little by little and from the earliest years of life.
An excellent way to familiarize the children to the habit of compassion is to make them aware of their surroundings.
Teach your child that everyone ought to be accepted as they are. That everyone is alike, feel the same way and hurt the same way.
Have your child begin to develop empathy for older people and those with an illness. Although some of these situations cannot be remedied, he can take a friendly word or act kindly with these people.
5. Sympathy vs. Compassion
Talk to your child so that he understands that feeling pity for a sick person, is not wrong. In fact, it is a basic feeling.
Inspire your children to go beyond sympathy and reach out to practice empathy. But it is up to them to go beyond this feeling: through volunteering help.
Teaching the difference between Empathy (compassion) and sympathy is also very important. Sympathy can create sorrow about that person who is suffering but that is pity. But empathy is a way to reach out to others and change the situation that caused the suffering.
The family life environment is perfect for learning to forgive, and to accept forgiveness; to be grateful, and to have compassion for others.
These are spiritual gifts that any parent can help their children develop and become real human gifts to this world.
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