Raising Generous Kids in 10 Minutes a Day

I was provided with a curriculum for the purposes of this review and compensation for my time. All opinions expressed are my own.

When asked what being generous means to my kids, they responded with being kind. I agree with them, that if you are generous, you are kind, but I think being generous is even more than kindness. It is going above and beyond to help those around you.

How do you teach something like that? Especially to homeschool kids who are generally more secluded from the heartbreaking realities of our world?

Well, Generous Family has introduced a product designed to help cultivate generous hearts in our kids, the Generous Students Homeschool Curriculum Kit!

Get a head start on raising kids with generous hearts by adding the Generous Students Homeschool Curriculum Kit to your day!

Why Should My Kids Learn to Be Generous?

There are many ways children benefit from having generosity as a character trait.

Developing Empathy. In order to be generous, kids must learn to put themselves in the place of others and consider their needs. This increases their ability to understand the feelings of others or their empathy.

Grow Compassion. Generous kids grow an even deeper form of empathy where they not only understand others' feelings and needs but also desire to help those people. This is compassion.

This compassion and generosity towards others naturally leads them to want to contribute to the people around them or their community. This helps them by giving them a sense of belonging.

All of these things combine to lead generous kids to a more fulfilling life. Who doesn't want their kids to be satisfied in their life while helping others along the way?

The Generous Students Homeschool Kit

The goal of this curriculum is to help homeschool parents grow Christ-like children, so it goes without saying that this is a Christian faith-based curriculum.

The Generous Students Homeschool Curriculum Kit includes:

Parent Guide
Three Student Booklets (more can be purchased separately)
Generosity Hero Book
Access to a Digital Library of videos and resources

The parent guide is laid out in an easy-to-understand daily format and includes questions to ask, passages to read, as well as some extra content to explore. It is very open and go!

The student journal has the same question prompts but allows space for the kids to write or draw their own answers.

The Generosity Hero book includes written narratives that can also be played from the digital library should you prefer to read them aloud.

Even if you read the Generosity Hero stories aloud, you will still want to be able to access the digital library. Here you will find color pages and extra videos that really demonstrate what a generous heart can do!

How to Use the Generous Students Curriculum

The Generous Students Homeschool Curriculum Kit is intended to be used by students ages 5-18 years old. This means the whole family can have this experience and grow together!

It teaches how to be generous in seven ways: with thoughts, words, time, influence, attention, money, and belongings. This is great because so many people only think of money and belongings when it comes to generosity.

Ideally, each child would have a student journal, but that being said, I can see older students preferring to keep their own journal with thoughts and reflections rather than answering the scripted journal questions. And littles may need to draw pictures or have you write answers for them so as not to hold up the whole family. But the content is definitely good for all ages!

When I mention the content I am really talking about the Generosity Heroes stories and the additional videos in the online library. The Generosity Heroes are not just missionaries or Biblical personalities (although there are some of those), but they are also a variety of people who have simply shown the compassion of Christ to their fellow humans. There are also some powerful videos there that not only show some brutal realities in age-appropriate ways but also show what having a generous heart can do for those living these realities.

The instructor's guide gives specific instructions for days 1, 2, and 3 of each week. For days 4 and 5 (or just day 4 if you are on a 4-day week), it gives you additional books to check out and other activity ideas to choose from that will fit your child(ren)'s needs.

The instruction for each day takes about 10 minutes depending on how much you and your children discuss. This makes it a very easy addition to your schedule and a great addition to breakfast, lunch, or even dinner if you want to include Dad.

A Few More Tips to Grow Generosity

Of course, once through a curriculum won't make your kids develop a generous heart. You have to put it into practice! And I do mean you because kids copy what they see you do. A few tips to do this: