Lesson in Values

We bought Larrry's Lagoon for the kids last week.  It is a Veggietales story - which they love.  This particular story is about forgiveness and the three of them seem to have really taken this on board.  Yesterday, I heard Rose and Joshua having a conversation outside while painting with water in the carport.  One of them was apologising and the other was talking about forgiveness.  I was impressed but even more impressed when, eating lunch in the mall, Rose spilt some of her chicken and peanut sauce on my trousers.  She said, "I'm sorry, mummy". I said, "What for?"  She said, "For spilling my food on your trousers."  I was actually a little taken aback. 

It has all reminded me of something I read recently asking how much time we let our kids watch TV and whether we are acknowledging the values they are being taught by an increasingly secular media.  It was suggesting we spend more time intentionally teaching our kids our values and beliefs - and in comparable units of time to what they spend picking them up from other sources.  How true!