Teach Your Children Well

Now that it’s Christmas time, and he’s old enough to begin to comprehend, we’ve been teaching our four-year old about the fact that other boys and girls might not have the things that he and his sister have. We’re doing the Salvation Army Adopt-A-Family for Christmas and have been explaining to Alex how that works.

Apparently, he’s getting it.

Last night, as we were putting him to bed, we were telling him about how we’d be stopping at a holiday toy drive this morning where I work to drop off some new toys. We explained that it’s for kids who don’t always get toys for Christmas.

Then, unprompted, came this comment from him:

“I want to give some monies to the boys and girls from my piggy bank.” At which point, he walked over and grabbed his piggy bank off the bookshelf. We helped him pull out some change and put it in an envelope, while at the same time shooting each other looks that said “Can’t believe he said that on his own.”

Teach them young and teach them well.