Simple Living - Take Charge
Along the way we have managed to grow into nations of peoples who look elsewhere for answers that should come from our own selves. This is not the road to simple living. I have heard mothers ask why the government didn't do this or why the school didn't do that to help their children. These institutions have a role to play but the foundation stuff is what parents are supposed to do.
Plus if we see that we are being failed by these institutions at what point do we step in and take charge? Here's an example. The great commercial Christmas. If you are like me as a child you want everything put in front of you. The simple difference is that maybe that I always was made to understand that we simply couldn't afford it, so I didn't ask and made up my mind that I would afford it for myself when I got older. There were no tantrums because it was made clear to me.
If you don't want to go into debt to fund your children's Christmas avoid the television being on unsupervised. Take charge. Don't take them down the aisles with all the sweeties and toys they will crave. Take charge.
Teach them about the gift of giving for Christmas. I once read how somebody would take their children at Christmas to homeless shelters to help out every year, or take care packages to families like my own was. Their Christmas will mean very different things than most kids.
Take charge.
Create your own rules. Your own boundaries and reasons and stories for your children. You are their first post of information and you as the parent are in the great position to get your policies and beliefs and way of simple living into their heads before anyone else gets to.
Take charge.
Frugal Living - Simple Living - Take Charge
0 comments:
Posting Komentar