Family & Life Magazine Issue 10 | Page 17

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