My children have so many stuffed toys given by friends and family but they are not very fond of playing with it so I send most of them to my family back home. That's why I wondered when my daughter told me that she really wanted the Dinosaur stuffed toy that their Science teacher is giving as a reward at their class. She has been doing extra curricular activities and doing extra homework just to gain the points that she need and she won it.
I told my daughter that she learned the lesson of the value of her effort. I said, when you work hard on something, you appreciate it more. That's why even though she isn't fond of stuffed toys, this one is particularly special because she worked hard for it. I told her that it is like that in real life when she grow up.
Even Mr. Burrito was very proud of her sister's hard work. Hubby and I told both of them that it is very important to do the best that they can with everything because when they succeed, the feeling of contentment and satisfaction is genuine compared to the feeling of happiness when you get something that you did not work for.
One specific example that we give them is getting groceries from the store. With us, we budget our grocery because we pay for everything, there is no free. No offense meant for posting this but we gave our kids the example of those who have welfare card. You can see their shopping cart so full of stuff in the store and that is because the money they are using to pay for it is not from their own hard labor, it is a hand me down from the government. I am not saying this because I am jealous but I am just stating the fact. We told our kids that we might not have all those expensive stuff but we are satisfied of what we have because we pay for it with our own money. Money that we work for.
One specific example that we give them is getting groceries from the store. With us, we budget our grocery because we pay for everything, there is no free. No offense meant for posting this but we gave our kids the example of those who have welfare card. You can see their shopping cart so full of stuff in the store and that is because the money they are using to pay for it is not from their own hard labor, it is a hand me down from the government. I am not saying this because I am jealous but I am just stating the fact. We told our kids that we might not have all those expensive stuff but we are satisfied of what we have because we pay for it with our own money. Money that we work for.
