| Teaching generosity in your character education class | | | | - prodigality |
| this month? It can be as simple as asking small children | | | | - readiness |
| to share their toys. It can be as complex as lecturing | | | | - unselfishness |
| on the difference between largesse and | | | | The Character Trait Defined |
| openhandedness. Teaching generosity becomes | | | | This is a character trait that works from an |
| easier and more interesting when you use stories from | | | | understanding of true good, proactively doing for |
| the day's news. In fact, character education teachers | | | | others things that are beneficial, even when it demands |
| who want to inject reality when teaching generosity | | | | personal sacrifice on the part of the person exercising |
| will find current events a valuable tool. | | | | the trait. |
| Teaching Generosity Synonyms | | | | Current Events Examples |
| Teaching generosity synonyms can be a constructive | | | | Current events are filled with examples. |
| beginning to your character education effort if care is | | | | Today's news reports that the head of a well-known |
| taken to define terms. Many words on the lists we use | | | | charity pocketed a salary of one million dollars while |
| when teaching generosity synonyms are not truly the | | | | watching his charity close its doors. Such a story |
| same as the character trait. | | | | shines a spotlight on the negative of stinginess. Even |
| Look at this list of twenty-five synonyms and see if | | | | little children will understand. One man was so greedy |
| you can determine which ones mean the same as the | | | | that he let many others suffer while he lived well. He |
| character trait. | | | | refused to make personal sacrifice. Instead, he closed |
| - abundance | | | | the doors on a charity that was helping others. |
| - affluence | | | | Another negative story from today's news is the |
| - altruism | | | | revelation that while North Koreans starve, their leader |
| - beneficence | | | | sends his men to Europe on regular shopping sprees. |
| - benevolence | | | | Those shopping sprees are not for food to help his |
| - bigness | | | | nation, but rather to purchase luxury cars, gold-plated |
| - bounty | | | | weapons, expensive furniture, and the finest food |
| - charitableness | | | | available for the leader himself. |
| - charity | | | | Need more? A positive story that will help educators |
| - free giving | | | | who are teaching generosity is that of the woman |
| - goodnes | | | | offering her community free horseback riding. Her |
| - heart | | | | horse farm regularly charges sixty-five dollars an hour |
| - high-mindedness | | | | for the privilege, but on Wednesday evenings, |
| - hospitality | | | | everyone rides free. On Wednesday evenings, the |
| - kindness | | | | woman who owns the farm sacrifices her income for |
| - largesse | | | | the good of those who cannot afford the simple |
| - love | | | | pleasure of a relaxing ride. |
| - magnanimity | | | | Conclusion |
| - munificence | | | | Teaching generosity this month in character education |
| - nobleness | | | | class? Read your newspaper, watch TV news, or |
| - openhandedness | | | | search the Internet for current events. They will make |
| - philanthropy | | | | your lesson relevant and memorable. |