New Beginnings
Children and adults often reflect on how the world is, the things they love and treasure and the things that they wish were not part of it.
Helping your child to express these thoughts, and sharing these as a family, can be very enlightening and is a powerful way to help your child to develop their individuality and their aspirations.
You can explore this with your child through the idea of “new beginnings”. If they were making the world for the first time, what would they put in it? What would they keep out of the world? Through discussion you can help them explore this idea. Help them to think about behaviours such as kindness, care for the planet etc. and not just physical things like trees and rivers etc. If family members and friends join in this discussion too, then you will also be helping them to understand that people think in different ways and have different values. Use “why?” questions to help them express their ideas and thoughts more fully.
