A Dozen Lessons Our Children Need to Learn
Family shepherds want to teach their children important life lessons. Here are 12 lessons I believe important.
- The greatest pleasures in life are earned through hard work and patience.
- Relationships require effort, kindness, patience, and forgiveness.
- It is alright to struggle, experience frustration, and even fail. In fact, failure is the seed of success.
- Treat others as you would have them treat you…even if they do not treat you that way.
- Success is about effort and perseverance, not performance and achievement.
- Politeness goes a long way…in other words, “you catch more bees with honey than you do with vinegar.”
- The world is full of choices. Don’t let those choices overwhelm you. Instead, learn to be content with the basic necessities…anything more is a gift.
- Practice generosity and gratitude every day.
- If you are not happy where you are, move!
- You will encounter situations in your life and the world that you will not like. You can complain, in which case nothing will get any better; or, you can work to make your life better. Work to make your life better!
- Freedom comes to the person who acts responsibly.
- You can not clean up the world’s problems until you learn to clean up your room.
What lessons would you add to this list?