What you'll need

What you'll need

Family photo album (or a box or bag of pictures you've
been meaning to put in an album)

Portraits of impressive individuals from books or from
history

What to do


1. Select a photo of a person in your family with an
impressive quality or accomplishment. Tell your child
about the person and about what the person did. Perhaps
your grandparents had the courage to immigrate from
another country or your parents sacrificed in order to
support you in school. Talk about the results of these
actions.

2. Collect photographs from newspapers or magazines about
impressive people in your community. With your child, talk
about their actions that merit admiration or praise.



3. In addition to relatives or others, you may want to
display portraits of other people who deserve our
admiration and respect. A picture of Anne Frank, a young
girl who wrote a diary while she and her family lived in
hiding from Nazi Germans and who died in a concentration
camp, can inspire conversation about courage and
compassion for others. A portrait of Martin Luther King, a
great civil rights leader who believed in nonviolent
change, can lead to discussions of great accomplishment
despite prejudice. Choose people whom you admire and feel
comfortable talking to your child about.

By stories we tell about the people we admire, we can
inspire children and remind them of those qualities we think
are important.