@LadiesofHive Community Contest #263 questions for the week are:
1️⃣ What do you consider to be the most important lessons that we should teach our children?
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2️⃣ Do you consider failing to be less, equal, or more important than succeeding in life and why?
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Children are very vulnerable and whatever they see their elders doing they learn from them. So it's very important to set the right examples in front of them. Also the times are changing very rapidly and with that even the parenting ways. In today's time what I observe the most is, how easily the younger generation is getting stressed out. Even children of age 6 and 8 talk about stress. So I feel the most important lesson to teach them is Resilience. They must learn to accept failures and navigate through life. They must be prepared to face the challenges of life, because life is not going to be easy. They should learn to adapt to situations.
Everything will not be available to them readily on the platter, there will be struggles, uncertainty and chaos in life, and they must learn to navigate through it. That will only come if they learn to be resilient from a very young age. Because that will build their confidence level, allow them to think broader and deal with challenges. They will learn to live in the real world and when faced with challenges they will not stress out and have set backs but be prepared to face it.
Building resilience with them is not easy and for that the parent themself should be prepared for it. They need to allow their child to fail, to make mistakes and to learn from that. These days what I see is parents give in very easily into their child demand and then the child also has lot of external influences where they are encouraged to not tolerate any hard actions from their parents. So it is a very sensitive matter to handle with them. The parent should not keep focusing on their success, which is again very common. Every parent want their child to achieve success. It is good but what is more important is to focus on the hard work and praise their effort, even if they fail the parent should not stop appreciating their effort and make the understand the value of efforts.
Parent should allow the child to think and not think on their behalf. Working parents who spend very less time with their children again fail here, because of the limited time they have with them, they want everything to happen fast and in the bargain do not give enough time to the child to develop their own thinking and problem solving capabilities.
As I said it's a one word but the actions to take behind it is a lot, but it is very much needed. Because when they will grow up they will be ready to face the real world in a better way. Their mental health will be better, their relationships will be smooth, their work area will be thriving. and they will be the smarter lot for sure.
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