Can One Teach Humility?

Hass has been feeling herself lately. I'm okay with that. I think a girl (and boy for that matter) needs a healthy self-esteem. What I am bent on teaching is that one can think highly of ones self without thinking poorly of others. For some reason, this lesson is a bit tricky. How do you do it?

I try to explain that we must be grateful for our blessings and show humility. (Yeah, fancy an eight year-old getting that). That some may not have the same, but that doesn't mean that any one is necessarily "beneath" another. With all of our families troubles, struggles, tribulations, successes, and triumphs, Allah has blessed us as Allah has blessed many others. We need to be grateful and to accept these blessing with humility. Without the knowledge of the greatness of Allah, and humility that we express in receiving Allah's blessings, Allah can decide to take them away. We must show Allah that we are grateful and deserving. We don't do that by showing Allah who we think is not. It is not up to us to judge that. It is up to us to make character assessments about those whom we consider part of our circle. That is it. Those are decisions that we must make based on our values governed by our love of Allah and the universe He created.