Celebrating Christmas with your kids is a blessing, a moment that we all long for during the year. Making this season special and joyful, and thinking of creative gifts and activities is our goal. So, how about you make this year’s gifts so special that they can be considered as grants rather than ordinary gifts.

How? Well, here is a list of perfect Christmas gifts that might inspire you:

1. Responsibility

Parents tend to shield their kids from many responsibilities to help them cope with the outside world and live a fruitful life. Without responsibility, children will be shocked when entering the real world, and that’s why we should always encourage our children to volunteer inside and outside the house, ask them for certain chores, a part-time job is never a bad idea, and always make sure they are held responsible for their actions. Even at a young age, teach them punctuality, commitment, and grit.

2. Experiences

Take them to the zoo! Bake a cake! Read a book with them! Whatever the experience is, it’s time you invest in their experiences rather than material things. We all grow and flourish from the experiences we go through, and so do your kids. When facing different experiences, they will learn to adapt to many different situations as well as build a strong bond between the both of you; not to mention how self-reflecting after each experience will give them the chance to know what they like most and how they respond to life in general!

3. Boredom

The best way to ensure your child’s creativity begins when you ensure they get bored. A quick flashback to prove our point, remember your own childhood and all the games you created and came up with when you were feeling bored! It will be the exact same thing when your kids go through it. At first, they will nag, then they will learn to be creative and use all the resources around them to come up with the activity and end up with an amazing time and an unforgettable memory! Boredom will let them try so many different things until they find something they enjoy and perhaps develop a new talent! They might even read a book!

4. A love of reading

No need to go into details here. A love for books and reading will definitely go together a long way! Spend time together and start by reading books for them. After all, that’s how they would fall in love with reading.

5. Failure

Unfortunately, we tend to overprotect our children from failure, but how are they going to learn from their mistakes if they don’t face them! We tend to think if we protect them from the consequences of their actions at a young age, they’ll grow up to know better. The best way for them to learn is by trying, risking, and learning that even though it might not be pleasant, they can still survive any outcome.

6. Brain training

Here is why our brain training is considered a great gift this Christmas! Instead of buying a materialistic gift, you’ll be investing in an experience that can unlock your child’s learning capacity and increase their ability to think, concentrate, learn, memorize, and read. This lifelong gift with lasting results will surely help them not only in school but also as grownups!