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I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom,

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How to Raise Generous Kids.

We talked before about Ron Lieber's clever way of capturing the goal of what we're all trying

to do as parents.

The opposite of spoiled, he writes.

He has a great book of the same name, which you carry at the painted porch.

That's what kind of kids you want.

That's what success is at this job.

You want to raise kids who aren't entitled, who are self-sufficient,

who are decent and kind, part of the solutions and not the problems of the world and of their

generation. Successful or struggling, you want your kids to be generous with their time, with their

money, with their talents. So what's the secret? There isn't one, except as we have

said over and over and over again, except modeling the traits you'd like to see in them. If you want

generous kids, you have to show them what a generous parent is. If you want your kid to be a helper,

you have to show them what that looks like. There is no better time than the holiday

season to do this. While other families so easily slip into the temptations of materialism and

gluttony on Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's or the countless sales commemorating them,

you can use this time to focus on people who are less fortunate. You can show them what it means

to be a giver by volunteering,

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