NURTURE
Cultivating Patience &
Gratefulness in Your Child
More Than a Decade in Character Building
In today’s grade-focused
education system, it can be
tempting to sacrifice the
inculcation of values such as
patience and gratefulness in
your child for the pursuit of
great academic results. Doing
that, however, can be of great
detriment to your child.
How can patience and gratefulness
help a child in his or her
academic pursuits?
Grace: It is short-sighted and
destructive to put children through
the grades-production mill without
girding them with the right character
traits. We commonly encounter
children who rush through a stack
of worksheets