As the society become rich and comfortable, many children expect to recieve gifts.
Some people might feel that giving gifts what the children want is good for them because they could please children immidiately.
However, I believe that we should consider what kind of gift really beneficial for them because childhood is the most important stage of one's life. In my opinion, the best presents we can give for children are diary and trip.
The one reason why giving diary for children is valuable is that dirary encourages children organize and review their everyday. This is largely because diray helps them to reflect themselves everyday by writing down what happened throughout the day and what they felt on diray. From my personal experience, I recieved diary for my 15th birthday gift from my parents.
Through writing diary everynight before I go to bed, I could able to reflect my self by going over what I did and thought the day. This experience greatly motivated me to learn about my daily life and made progress since I could see myself clearly. Therefore, in this little personal space where I can open my mind, I could find valuable lessons on my personal develpment.
Also, trip is the invaluable gift for children's life. That is, traveling where one had no experience serves as a great experiential learing. In general, childern are very active and absorb well what they experienced directly in order to grow up to adults. So they always expect having exciting exeperience that would help them making good personality. To demonstrate this point, children who took trip during their vacation tend to have more balanced perspective and be tolerant of other's differences. This is due to the fact that in the trip, they are naturally exposed to a thousand of exotic scenes, foods, and people from diverse back grounds. This fresh and beyond their dairly life experience enlarges their horizen as well as understaniding differences of otheres.
So trip is one of the best gift people can give for their future growing.
To sum up, I strongly believe that giving gift children should be selective for their future. In that sense, dirary for organizing their daily life and trip for experiential learing could be best gift for children. As it is often said that children is the hope of ourselves, it would be more wise for us to seriously consider what really helpful for their future and growing up.
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