Our book club has been going through Kay Kuzma's book "The First Seven Years." She suggests choosing a character quality that I would like to see my children exhibit and then emphasizing that trait every day for a week. The idea is to emphasize traits such as obedience, honesty, etc and rotate through them on a 13 week basis repeating throughout the year.
I choose kindness. I try to notice when Lucas does something kind or point out how something can be done that is kind.
We've been learning the a scripture song from Eph. 4:32. " Be ye kind, one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you."
Two interesting incidents that have happened connected to kindness. The first day I had a friend over. We had lots of fun scrap booking. Well, our boys didn't get along so well. Her little boy bopped Lucas in the face with a car and Lucas immediately reciprocated while shouting, "He isn't kind! He isn't kind!" Okay, so he knows the difference between kind and unkind. That's good. Now I suppose I need to work on teaching him turning the other cheek, so to speak.
This morning, the fifth day of teaching the concept of kindness, I was reading him Buzzy Bee's Bee Happy book. This book emphasizes a lot of good character traits along with Bible verses.
The picture that goes along with kindness showed a little boy pulling his sister's hair. Lucas pointed and declared, "he isn't kind or tender-hearted!"
On another topic... We were out walking this afternoon. Lucas asked to get into the stroller. Then he asked for the lid to be put down. Turns out the lid is the canopy! Funny boy.
P.S. Abrianna's 5th tooth made an appearance today.
3 comments:
See, you can do this character trait stuff! :) Glad to see Lucas is comprehending it...you'll see good results, I'm sure!
Sounds like Lucas "gets it"!
What a funny boy. sl
Love the excerpts!! Sounds like he is catching on fast.
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