How do we help our children understand very young, to value their life more than just material things?
Materialism is everywhere today. The parents give the children all the toys… countless toys. But when we were young, we only had one or two toys, or something no toys. So we saw our toys as precious. But now we have so many toys, so many material things. We don’t really treasure our things like we used too. We have a different kind of thinking about the material things. We are always pursuing more material things. We need to train the children, to have responsibility, so that when they get something they will understand the value of it. So from very young we have to train them. When they get a toy, they need to understand the value. They have to work. They have to have a value system. They have to work for their return. Then when they have the correct value system, they will understand how to earn to get what they want. If we don’t teach the children, the value system, then they will take of it for granted. When they are young, they don’t have this value system, so they just keep ask