2007-08-14 14:08:48 · 11 answers · asked by midnite rainbow 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You can be a good role model to your child and show them how to love unselfishly. Show your child how to care for other people by letting them help you do things like volunteer. Your child could help you collect canned food for a food bank, deliver toys for other children at Christmas, visit a nursing home, etc. This will help them see how to care for other people without expecting anything in return.
2007-08-14 14:19:56 · answer #1 · answered by bigmel 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Love is not a behaviour. There is more human suffering out of this concept than any other that I can think of.
Further, a child who loves unselfishly will grow to be resentful, bitter and somewhat of a matryr resenting others for years to come.
Never set a child up with a standard that can never be duplicated in any other relationship than the parent provides.
I am not going to love your child unselfishly. if you leave your child with the impression that others will, you are only contributing to their hurt feelings later when they encounter reality.
2007-08-14 22:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!
It would be easier for a child could teach me to love unselfishly.
2007-08-15 01:00:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question. I don't think to LOVE is a matter of being taught.. I BELIEVE that you can simply point a child in the right direction and love them UNCONDITIONALLY. If you LOVE and give without asking for anything in return, they will be left to explore the matter of love for themselves. Yes, you make mistakes but you learn from them and become a stronger person.
I haven't been "taught" to love UNSELFISHLY but from the LOVE I have received from the moment I was born, to love has become something natural and normal. I have learnt that the reward of helping, being polite comes in the form of a beautiful, special feeling. The feeling of doing good, putting a smile on somebodies face is PRICELESS!
Thank You..
Take Care!
2007-08-15 11:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by te-quiero♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a child loves unselfishly they will get done over, better to teach them it should go both ways (to share)
2007-08-14 21:20:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Assuming you are the parent of one child.......
Are you self centred? Do you worry about your standing in life? Are material things really important to you? Do you adorn your home with expensive things?
Would you leave your home right now, and everything in it, for the love of your child?
By now, you should know whether you are loving your child unselfishly.
2007-08-14 21:39:02 · answer #6 · answered by wonkyfella 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Love it unselfishly and that is what it will learn.
It really is that simple.
2007-08-14 21:30:58 · answer #7 · answered by Ring of Uranus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even if you could, it would not be a good idea. Too much harm is done by incompetent actions motivated by love
2007-08-15 06:17:44 · answer #8 · answered by jay58 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to talk to them, like young adult, and with respect, To answer all the question they have, and for you to let them know that if they need anything they can come to you, Teach them to share and to greatfull for what they have, if they missbehave, sit with them and talk to them about what they did wrong, and teach them to help others, by helping others, they will feel, how good it is to share something and leave no room for selfishness, to love with no exeptions.
2007-08-14 21:21:40 · answer #9 · answered by Angel L 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes.
and that is to not spoil him/her.
and teach the child to share and be unselfish.
2007-08-14 21:17:06 · answer #10 · answered by kiddo! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋