How to cultivate children's helpful qualities

Parents can train their children to do good deeds from an early age and cultivate their habit of helping others, so that the world can be filled with love. So what are some ways to make children willing to help others? What are the benefits of making children willing to help others?

Ways to make children helpful

Be a great companion: Take your children to nursing homes and let them accompany the lonely elderly. These elderly people may not have grandchildren to chat with them, and your children can just give them comfort.

Train your puppy: Let your child train your pet. In addition to making your child happy during the training process, you can also cultivate their understanding of how to help others.

Collect donated food: Have your children go to the streets to collect food donations from neighbors, such as canned food or dry food. Then have your children donate the collected food to organizations in need, such as villages in remote areas.

Buy gifts and give them away: When someone has a birthday or there is a special holiday like Christmas, you can encourage your children to buy a small gift and give it to someone in need. Some children from poorer families would like to receive such small gifts.

Helping in the library: Take your children to visit a library near your home and let them help organize books, or help clean up after an arts and cultural event held by the library.

Go to an animal shelter: Take your children to visit an animal shelter and let them play with the animals. Regardless of whether they will adopt the animals in the end, at least they will learn the responsibilities of owning a pet.

Visit a children’s hospital: Encourage your children to make some handmade cards or small gifts, then go visit a children’s hospital together and let them give these small things to the hospitalized children to convey their love and care.

Doing things with other children: Let your child do things with children younger than him. You will find that your child can guide others and know how to help younger brothers and sisters.

The benefits of letting children be helpful

Cultivate children's kindness: Through these acts of helping others, children can have a kind heart. They will know how to understand, care for, and care about others.

Train children to be independent: In the process of helping others, children will learn how to handle things independently and know how to use logical thinking to make things go more smoothly and quickly.

Increase parent-child interaction: By taking your child to help others, you can increase your interaction with him or her, which can help warm your relationship, deepen the connection, and allow your child to understand who you are as a person.

Spread love to the world: If everyone can do their best to help others, the world will be full of love, there will be warmth everywhere, and the social atmosphere will be kinder.

How to cultivate children's willingness to help others

Let your children believe that they have the ability to help others

Some children are hesitant or too indifferent when their peers need help, which is hurtful to their friends. In fact, some children lack self-confidence and think they cannot help others. If children have this idea, parents should look for opportunities to help them regain their self-confidence and give them confidence and encouragement often.

Let children learn to observe and pay attention to the needs of others

When their peers are in trouble, some children can realize that their peers need help, but they still turn a blind eye, have no reaction, and just do what they should do. For such children, parents should often express their needs directly in words, describe the help they need, and teach their children how to understand other people's needs from their expressions and behaviors, so that children can learn to care about others.

Let children make timely decisions to help others

According to research, the power of emotions helps children make decisions to help others. For children under 5 years old, parents can guide them to recall similar situations and feelings they have experienced, such as "Were you also very anxious when you couldn't button your clothes before?" For children over 6 years old, parents can also set up scenarios and let them put themselves in the other children's shoes and think about what they think when they encounter difficult situations.

Teach your children to take appropriate helping actions

To want to help but not be able to do so means that one wants to help but lacks the ability. When teaching children, one must be decisive in saying no because one's personal abilities are limited.