Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Considering core values

My son's school distributed a list of core values to parents recently, asking us to circle the five that mean the most to us. The whole school will be focusing on core values for living in the coming months and they wanted our input in choosing which might be the most important. It sounded like an easy task but as we read through the list, my husband and I found choosing just five was harder than we expected.

We all have an idea of values that are important to us, and as parents, in raising a family in the best way possible but I thought I would share the list we were given as something you may wish to briefly contemplate. It can be a useful exercise to select your top five values and a good starting point for further discussion with your partner.

Which five from the list do you think you would choose? Are there any other values you think are missing that are important to you?


Balance
Care
Citizenship
Confidence
Consideration
Co-operation
Courage
Courtesy
Creativity
Enthusiasm
Equality
Excellence
Fairness
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Happiness
Hard work
Harmony
Honesty
Hope
Humility
Humour
Inclusion
Justice
Kindness
Loyalty
Love
Nurture
Patience
Peace
Perseverance
Positivity
Quality
Respect
Responsibility
Self-belief/worth
Simplicity
Sustainable living
Teamwork
Thankfulness
Tolerance
Trust
Understanding
Unity
Wisdom
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  1. Tracy4 December 2013 at 20:05

    Good thought provoking post!
    Really, really hard to narrow it down to five but here are mine.

    1) Kindness
    2) Tolerance
    3) Happiness
    4) Self belief/Worth
    5) Fun

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    1. Mummy Zen7 December 2013 at 20:43

      Thanks so much for sharing your top 5! It is hard to pick and different for different people of course. x

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  2. Maryse10 December 2013 at 13:57

    Respect - Love - FAITH (not on the list. I'm not even taking it in a religious context. It's faith in Life, in one's choices, in how things will work out. I don't know how one can live without faith in something) - Self belief/worth - Honesty

    for me, all the others stem from those 5.

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    1. Mummy Zen12 December 2013 at 22:05

      Thank you Maryse! Faith is a great one, as you have outlined so well in your comment. Like you, I also see a lot of overlap/connection with many of those values listed.

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  3. Beadzoid13 December 2013 at 09:49

    Hello again :) Apologies for not being around much of late. I hope you are well?

    It would be very difficult to pick just 5, but I'll give it a go:

    Love, creativity, self-belief/worth, courage, kindness, fun.

    It's hard to exclude some, but for a young person who is setting out on a path and have their who life ahead of them, I think these are a good basis.

    Others, like loyalty, tolerance and honesty are also extremely important - but I think when you're young then concepts like these are difficult to 'fully' grasp. Though encouraging an honest response to "did you take that biscuit of your dad's plate?" is always good, of course :) xx

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    1. Mummy Zen14 December 2013 at 14:31

      Hi there, good to hear from you and hope you are well too.
      I like your thinking, with the focus on a young child and the kinds of concepts they can grasp and relate to. xx

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  4. Beadzoid13 December 2013 at 09:50

    Ps I realise I chose 6! I still have eye drops in from yesterday's eye tests and have blurred vision, so I'm blaming that ;) x

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