Knowing how to teach humility starts with understanding what humility is: thinking of yourself less. Humility is a character trait that the world isn’t interested in building. In fact, thinking more of yourself is touted as a skill or stepping stone to success. But humility is something that will help your children build relationships which often leads to open doors. Learning how to teach humility might be one of the best things you can do as a parent, because not only will it change your child’s life, it can help your child change the lives of those around her.
If you want to know how to teach humility to kids iMOM’s Good Character Traits printable is a good starting point. We’ve designed a calendar to help you focus on a different trait each month, but if your child needs an extra focus on humility, this printable can be used at any time of the year. It includes a definition you can cut out and hang on the fridge or the mirror in your child’s bathroom (or both). There’s also a Bible verse to offer direction and encouragement.
Part of teaching humility is having discussions about the trait and how it relates to life, so we’ve included a conversation starter question to dig deeper. It’s guaranteed to help your child think differently about humility. We’re so confident that these tools along with our calendar and its accompanying stickers will lead to great things for your child that the printable page includes a reward certificate with space for you to write how you saw your child being humble. If you really want to reinforce the lesson, you can print a handful and give a certificate to your child weekly. And because we know kids love rewards, each Good Character Trait printable comes with a coupon to give your child. Use our reward, or come up with one of your own that you know will be a big incentive. Teaching humility to kids is worth the hard work you’re going to put in.
Humility is just one of 12 character traits we want to help you build in your kids. Here are more.
