Released on April 172023
When teaching your children kindness, simply telling them how to be kind is not enough. With so many distractions around them, you’re lucky if they remember a single word you said.
That’s why playing games is one of the best ways to teach your children kindness and other moral values. It not only engages them physically, but also stimulates their minds and forces them to think.
Research It also shows that playing games helps children test what they have learned from books. It encourages critical thinking and straightens problem-solving skills as well.
Also, as a former teacher, I can tell from experience that playing games will help your children learn faster and retain information longer.
If you’re unsure about how to teach them courtesy lessons by heart, here are some courtesy games you can play with your kids:
1.Smile Infection Game
Spreading smiles is one of the best ways to spread kindness. With this game, your kids will learn the importance of making other people smile.
Suitable for ages: 5 to 10
Goals of the game: spread smiles and kindness
What you will need:
- a tennis ball with a smiley face on it
- music
How to play:
- Gather the children in a circle.
- Let the children pass each other while the music plays.
- When the music stops, the kid holding the ball will have to make the others laugh. They can tell a silly joke or make funny faces – they can do anything to make their peers laugh.
- Repeat the process until all children take their turn and make the others laugh.
2. Courtesy Shenanigans
This works very similarly to a traditional charade. But instead of random actions, participants will do acts of kindness. You can play this in teams or as a whole group.
Suitable for ages: 8 to 15
Goals of the game: to show acts of kindness
What you will need:
- small folded pieces of paper with acts of kindness written on them
How to play:
- Have a child choose a folded piece of paper and perform the act of kindness written on it.
- Let other kids guess what their peers are doing
