4 Ways to Help Your Child Be Humble
Camp Kupugani is our Midwest overnight summer camp near Madison and Chicago. Recognizing that our campers and staff are amazing people each in their own way, we also want to avoid being smug, boastful, or pretentious. We recently found this article from The Greater Good Magazine to help our amazing community find ways to be humble. Our bullet points below, with the full article here.
- Help them be secure in their identity.
- Help your child know who they are.
- Help your child know what they are good at.
- Open-mindedness is key.
- What can others help you with?
- What connections can be made with someone else?
- Start at home.
- Promote humility by being humble.
- Don’t be dismissive/divisive towards opinions different from yours.
- Humility often comes with age.
- Time in nature promotes humility.
- When compared to the awe of nature we seem small (not a bad thing).
- Take a trip with your family and reflect on how amazing nature is.