Valentine is here again! What plans do you have for your children? We have spent valentine with our spouses these past valentines, why don’t we include our children this year? Use this opportunity amongst others to teach them about love. Let them understand the importance of sharing and showing love properly. Teaching children to love others is not accomplished merely by instruction. The best results come when parents model the values of love and involve their children in projects of love. Your gestures of love towards them and towards others influence your children deeply. Your job as a parent is to make your children conscious of love, its importance and its power. They need to have love stirred up within them. This isn’t your task for just when they are little children, it continues even when they are teenagers and adults themselves.
If our children, who are our future, do not learn about love they will be unable to show it to others and then we would face a future world that is cold and heartless. It is the ability to love that makes us human. Love dwells in each and every one of us and it is our job as parents to make sure that our children learn how to love. Children have the responsibility to love and serve others now, not just when they grow up.
If our children do not learn to love they will lose the ability to feel and show love, which is one of the most precious gifts that God has given us.
Learning to love will help children avoid many of the pitfalls that come as they grow. It can make them a better person; give them the confidence to do what is right and help make the world a better place.
For this valentine, give gifts to your children and encourage them to give gifts to others.
I plan to go to an orphanage with my family. As part of teaching my children to share gifts with the less privileged and also as part of teaching them how to treat the less privileged (with love and respect).
Wishing you all the best in this season of love, and remember, showing of love should not be limited to this one day in the year but should be a life style for us and our children.
Happy valentine!
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