National Values: Contentment

Civic education JSS2 First Term

Sub-theme: Our values

Week 3

National Values: Contentment

Performance objectives

The student should be able to:

1. Explain the meaning of contentment

2. Describe the attributes of contentment

Content

Meaning of contentment

Contentment is a state of being satisfied with one’s life and with what one has.

Someone is said to be content if he/she is not always feeling like having everything to himself alone.

Attributes of contentment

1. Satisfaction: This is the state of being pleased or happy with what one has.

2. Lack of envy: A contented person does not feel bad when another person has what he/she does not have. Even when another person is succeeding, a contented person does…