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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are attending Catholic school and focusing on different virtues.  They are talking about humility right now.  I love hearing their thoughts and ideas on how they are thinking about their own strengths and weaknesses and appreciating the strengths of their classmates.  
I’m working on incorporating this more into my own adult life, and I’m wondering how other people think about it.  [/quote]

Thank you for this provocative question OP

Here are some ways that I am reminded of the need for humility

- respecting all life as divinely valuable

- Practicing the Golden Rule / not using other people as means to serve my desired ends

- Forgiving those who hurt me

- Forgiving myself while trying to do better

- Being aware that most of life is outside my control but striving to be responsible, engaged aond kind in whatever small ways I can

- being open to the wisdom of others and other faith traditions

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I really like your list.  Some of these are easier for me than others!

I struggle with jealousy sometimes, and sometimes this feeling of lost potential.  Like I ought to be doing more or be more important somehow but I’m not because of some kind of flaw in myself or because other people are keeping me from it.

I think about this in my kids too.  I see sometimes that instead of joyfully engaging in their work and sports, they are straining to be something that they aren’t in order to be seen as successful or somehow “better” than other kids.  I know that I have instilled some of this in them.  It’s a struggle sometimes for me to remember what’s really important in life and to make sure that I convey that to my kids, especially as they are starting high school and feeling that competition more.

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OP to whom you responded. I hear you… the struggle to stay humble and kind is real.

We need to forgive ourselves when we fall short of our best intentions for ourselves. But it is great that you can observe these patterns emerging. It is very easy to get caught up in the parenting perfect children rat race (We live in DMV and the pressure on the kids is also insane.

It sounds like you are a very loving parent. Love covers a multitude of sins. Just like the sun rises and flowers bloom without assistance from us, our children will bloom in their own ways in their own time.

Peace [/quote]

And with or without religion. [/quote]

Okay.  Where are some non-religious places that you hear people talking about how to be better people or be more virtuous and charitable, pp?  [/quote]

I'm a Christian PP. However I will point out that one of my fellow deeply religious believers was thrilled when her kids' FCPS public school started using [url=https://www.virtuesproject.com/education]The Virtue's Project[/url], a religiously agnostic program focusing on virtue in life, in school. So there are ways.

That project defines humility as "Being open to every lesson life brings, trusting that our mistakes are often our best teachers. Being thankful for our gifts instead of boastful."

Personally I think virtues divorced from a deity are missing something (the true humility of worshiping the deity), but I personally know atheists who focus on living well who would entirely disagree with me.[/quote]

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