I'd go for teaching them chess. Much more thing you can learn. The most obvious - The reward is not always immediate, patience can help you to succeed - Don't

I'd go for teaching them chess. Much more thing you can learn. The most obvious - The reward is not always immediate, patience can help you to succeed - Don't look only on your plans, check your opponents opportunities and threads as well - When you are behind, there a quite often chances to turn a game around - don't give up - When you lose, or make a mistake, you can't blame it to bad luck or anyone else - Analyse your games afterwards - learn from your mistakes Even for adults the is a awful lot you can learn in chess. Most basic thing, when you took a look on a game in middle play, amateurs mostly look for a small gain from an exchange. More skilled players look at the board and first look at the asymetries of the position and analyse how the can use them in their favor. Magnus Carlsen really took the game to another level. You see games which look totally even, and 5 turns later where Magnus just reordered two or three pieces to slightly different positions and he manage to get into a winning position - without even exchange a single piece. That's another thing what you can learn from chess: Improve your position by changing small thnings.