Your child will learn more about sharing by watching you take off your coat and give it to a cold street person, than by all the teaching and bible stories you can tell them.
So live your values.
Spend more time praying through and being intentional about living what you believe, than stressing about how to teach your kids to do so.
Especially when they are small, when language is not their primary way of learning, they will pick up life lessons by seeing what you do and how you respond. They take note of the way you show respect to the beggar rather than ignoring them. They watch you sweat as you lay bricks at a volunteer house build. They experience God by sitting along side you as you pray in your moment of pain and angst. Every day they observe you as you engage with this world according to your values.
And when they get older - the stories, the teachings, the values that can be verbalised will hang seemlessly on the life experiences that they have LIVED WITH YOU.
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