Share which life lessons you feel are important to teach your child about with Day Out With Thomas

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Teaching your child positive values is one of the biggest jobs we have as parents - from working as a team to helping others, it’s important that children learn these lessons early on. With this in mind, Day Out With Thomas wants to hear about the values and life lessons that you feel are essential for your child to learn, and how you help them to apply these in real life.

Here’s what Day Out With Thomas has to say:

“Peep Peep! All aboard for a Day Out With Thomas!
Thomas, the Number 1 blue engine, and The Fat Controller have travelled all the way from the Island of Sodor for a day of family fun at a heritage railway near you. Meet Thomas and The Fat Controller, take a train ride and enjoy so much more!
Thomas & Friends episodes teach children about teamwork, friendship, and problem solving, values that we know are really important to you when letting your child watch their favourite programmes.
Day Out With Thomas™ is an annual event brings these values to life, and gives children and their families the unique opportunity to meet the classic storybook character Thomas the Tank Engine at heritage railways across the UK. Families can ride on a real steam engine, pulled by Thomas, and meet The Fat Controller! There’s also lots more to enjoy at each event. Activities may include children’s rides, soft play, toy play area, a live show, miniature railway, storytime, and meeting other engines and characters from Thomas & Friends.”

Which values are most important for your child to learn? Are there particular values your child has already learnt and implemented from their favourite TV characters? Can you think of a time your child exercised positive values and made you proud?

Whichever values you feel are important to teach your children, share them on the thread below for a chance to win. There will be 5x chances to win, with one poster winning a £300 voucher (from a list), and four posters each winning a family ticket (for a family of 4) to a 2019* Day Out With Thomas event of the winner’s choice – locations can be found here.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ
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*Events from 15 August 2019 onwards

Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself, it's so important and teaching good manners and sharing is a good way to start with young children

I believe we need to teach children to be strong in character and mind, to be willing to face their fears and challenges. To be self sufficient. To always do and be the best that they can be, never saying they can’t before trying

Good manners and of course never eat yellow snow.

Save for future, only you can determine it

I think that one of the most important values to teach a child is compassion. We try and get dd to understand that different people see things in different ways, you don't have to agree with them, but you have to understand that this is how they feel and it should be respected.

Travel and the big wide world is always top of our list. We all spend, myself as much as anyone glued to screens that we lose sight of real life experiences.

Kindness, empathy and acceptance. Treat people the way you would like to be treated.

Integrity - as long as you have this as your foundation you can build the other skills on top

Giving is always more rewarding than receiving.

I teach them to be kind and to respect other people. Also I encourage them help others when they need help and to care for one another.

They made a huge card by hand, when one of their friends was in the hospital and they got all of their class to sign it. Plus they spent their own pocket money to get their ill friend a teddybear to make them feel better. I could have not help but feel very proud of them for their nice gesture.

Be kind to others and do to others as you would want to you x

Good manners, kindness, sharing and at the moment- putting ones hand in front of ones mouth when one coughs!

Kindness is such an important one to teach. Basically just trying to instil in them the importance of being a good human being.

I try to teach my daughters resilience and a good attitude to trying things out and taking up and enjoying different opportunities.

Be comfortable and confident in who you are. True friends will like you for who you are.

Budgeting would be the main one for me....kids need to learn to save for things they really want instead of being handed everything. I made the mistake of spoiling my only child and he now just expects everything. I am trying to back track which is difficult!

My main things to teach my children are compassion, honesty, respect and kindness

To treat others as you would like to be treated yourself, there are so many nasty people around with no thought for other peoples feelings.

I think resilience is important. Not everything in life goes to plan so learning to carry on and not give up and to overcome obstacles is a value I wish my DD to have. My DD is a lot more confident than I was at her age. She has gained this skill from school.

To be kind and considerate of others. I want my children to grow up with the ability to imagine what it is like in another persons shoes and to be kind and caring people. I don’t want them to be narrow minded or to lack empathy.

I like to teach mine to be kind to others and respect other people. I will teach them about strangers and how to take care of themselves.
I have taught them good manners and I feel proud to see them being polite and using good manners at home and when out and about.
They do copy behaviour off tv characters so I like to make sure that they don't watch anything with bad behaviour in, although if the bad behaviour is corrected in the tv program then I am happy for them to watch it.

That as a girl she is every bit as capable of and likely to succeed as her brothers and to accept no limitations because of her gender,

I am very big on being kind and stepping up if you see someone being bullied. My husband was badly physically bullied and I was picked on verbally by "the cool kids" and I know how dreadful that made us feel, so my children know to either tell a teacher or befriend a lonely classmate to ensure they don't ever have to feel like that. We also do frequent random acts of kindness as a family to show them how good it feels to do something nice without expectation of anything in return.

Empathy - I think the soonest you can embrace empathy the better and the better for them and all that know them! I say embrace as at the first sign of empathy letting a child know that their feelings are real, good, honest feelings - Some children struggle with feelings and emotions and letting them know that it is OK and showing them you can laugh, cry and be sad and disappointed are all ways of teaching them to come to terms with their feelings and develop empathy for others

I try to teach my kids to think first before doing something and how others might feel if for instance, they took one of their siblings possesions without asking.