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Five Ways To Teach Your Child Humility
Five Ways To Teach Your Child Humility
10/18/2016
Sarah Oryschak
The virtue we are tackling in the Lower School this month is Humility. It is one of the
simplest, yet most challenging virtues for us to live.
We want to live putting others first and living truthfully, but it is so easy for our pride to
get in the way. Our pride often lead us in one of two directions (or both!): either we think
too well of ourselves at the expense of others, or we put ourselves down for our failings
at the expense of ourselves. Humility is a fine line between the two extremes of
pride. We acknowledge our gifts and strengths, putting them at the service of others.
We recognize our weaknesses and use them to turn to God and ask him to help us
grow.