Children are keen observers and try to act like their parents. Parents can teach their children more by practicing positive behavior in front of their children.
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Here are the 5 ways you can teach your children by example:
Yelling And Shouting At Others
If parents yell and shout at each other, it not only disturbs the feelings of the children but also makes the overall family environment very negative. Children will start acting the same way whenever they get some authority let's say, an elder child will yell or shout at the younger one if s/he did something wrong. Parents should sit and solve problems by discussions and children will follow this practice.
If You Make Promises, Kee Them
When parents say something and act the other way around, they set a bad example for their children. Children start thinking that words or promises that we make to others hold no value at all. If you made some promise to your child and for some serious reason could not fulfill it, then you should not afraid of explaining it to your child. Your explanation will make sense and child will learn something positive out of this experience. However, you should not be breaking promises all the times and then give false justifications to you child. They will start disbelieving you.
Enjoying Little Things Makes Life More Fun
Often times, we ignore the small things in our life. This way, we lose chance of making some good memories. Little things have magical power in them. It's just that we have to find out that magic. For example, parents celebrate the birthday parties all the times in the same way. Make a little twist and change it from cutting a cake in room and giving gifts to your child to something like a trip to a nearby historical place or to the river side and spending some quality time there with you kid.
Stick To Your Discipline But...
It's important to be disciplined in your life. If you're disciplined, your children will also try to be disciplined. However, a very strict discipline is bad and it creates some very negative behavior in the children. So, parents must mix their disciplined attitude with some humor. Parents with a good sense of humor often keep the environment of their home stress-free and this is very helpful for the children to grow in a stress-free environment.
Children Can Learn Empathy
Parents can teach their children to help the poor and needy. When you help someone in need, you teach your children to be kind and helpful to others. You also teach them to be empathetic to others. Children who are kind and empathetic grow up as better individuals.
Children See, Children Do
Children are very good imitators. So, be the person that you want to see them. This is a relevant video and I found it very interesting.
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I hope this post helps you lead your children by some good example.
Happy Steeming!