Daily Helping:
Week 06 (February 05 - February 11):
During this 7 day period, focus on the need to model for your students the importance of understanding what is involved with instant gratification from a cultural perspective. Our youth, at every grade level, need to recognize that they live in a society and world where, evermore, the need for instant gratification is promoted and sought after with reckless abandon. Our children need to be lovingly instructed in such a way that perspective is given in terms of how our fore-fathers and fore-mothers lived and how in many respects this is contrary to our way of living today. Obviously, there are many related factors to such a topic; we could talk about the advancement in technology and how this has impacted the way we live. However, we need to focus on the principle of why a good work ethic, self-control and seeking the well-being of others is the main teaching point. Students need to be exposed to the fact that our choices today affect the outcomes of our future experiences. For example, if we only choose to eat fast food because it tastes good and is convenient, then the long-term consequences may be poor health and less time spent with family. The former possible outcome is obvious but the latter will take further explanation: Quality time during home-cooked meals with family is a strength for all people in society; however, we are such a busy culture that the instant gratification of fast food in many respects has taken time from the sacred experience of family meals in the home where relationships are cultivated and nurtured. Nevertheless, strive diligently to help your students receive examples of the multivarious ways in which better outcomes for their lives are too often and easily compromised by the choices they make daily in an instant gratification mindset.
During this 7 day period, focus on the need to model for your students the importance of understanding what is involved with instant gratification from a cultural perspective. Our youth, at every grade level, need to recognize that they live in a society and world where, evermore, the need for instant gratification is promoted and sought after with reckless abandon. Our children need to be lovingly instructed in such a way that perspective is given in terms of how our fore-fathers and fore-mothers lived and how in many respects this is contrary to our way of living today. Obviously, there are many related factors to such a topic; we could talk about the advancement in technology and how this has impacted the way we live. However, we need to focus on the principle of why a good work ethic, self-control and seeking the well-being of others is the main teaching point. Students need to be exposed to the fact that our choices today affect the outcomes of our future experiences. For example, if we only choose to eat fast food because it tastes good and is convenient, then the long-term consequences may be poor health and less time spent with family. The former possible outcome is obvious but the latter will take further explanation: Quality time during home-cooked meals with family is a strength for all people in society; however, we are such a busy culture that the instant gratification of fast food in many respects has taken time from the sacred experience of family meals in the home where relationships are cultivated and nurtured. Nevertheless, strive diligently to help your students receive examples of the multivarious ways in which better outcomes for their lives are too often and easily compromised by the choices they make daily in an instant gratification mindset.
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