Why is care important?
Care is of the utmost importance. We support organisations that take care of what’s important to us, e.g. the ones that take care of children or seniors or that deal with ecology. We react when someone gets hurt, we segregate trash and teach our children how to take care for pets. This gives us not only satisfaction, but also a sense that we can impact the world to make it a better place. Talk to your child about how to behave when someone needs help or when someone is hurt.
What is caring?
Recall a situation when you took care of or helped someone. Tell your child how it made you feel. Ask them if they remember a situation when they’ve been taken care of. Perhaps they took care of someone themselves? You can draw examples of such situations and create a comic book. Also, talk to your child about how we feel when someone takes care of us. How do we feel when we take care of someone, what do we get from it?
How can we take care of others?
Create a good advice list. Talk about how we take care of:
- small children,
- the elderly,
- animals.
Try to create lists of good advice about how to take care of specific people or animals. You can also play scenes that illustrate this. Remind the child that in our lives we can meet people who are in a difficult situation and can need help. It may be a neighbour who isn’t able to do her own shopping due to illness. It could be a friend who missed a day at school and doesn’t know about the homework. Look around you. There might be someone who needs you. Think about how you can support such a person.