WISDOM NUGGETS FOR PARENTING
WISDOM FOR PARENTING
Avoid giving your children everything they want. They end up growing up with the notion that things are all theirs no matter the source and could trigger the attitude of theft. Beward of this attitude in children.
Sternly frown at your kids when they use vulgar words or they abuse people around. Dont laugh at the attitude of your children abusing people. Tackle aggression in your children, if they grow up with it they end up being society hazards and trigger societal violence in them. Charity begins at home. Inculcate good values in them. They would be great assets to the society.
Avoid being insenaitive to bad behaviours that can be displayed by kids. Reprimand and scold them in need arises, dong let bad habits fall on deaf ears, these habits grow into character traits which they cannot live without. Stop every bad behaviours in kids.
Avoid cleaning up their messes, If your child dirties a place, let them clean it off as soon as possible, it instill discipline good fate in them. It makes a child learn how to carry responsibilities, it makes the child become productive in life.
Avoid your kids from watching all programs on the television set. There should be discrete parental guidiance on programs that children watch on the televison set. They should be shown good vices and not bad vices.
Avoid giving your kids money all the time they ask for it. They grow up believing that when they need money, they get it and it could force them to go at any length to get that money, it could pose the threat of kids stealing at will, when they grow up. Take note.
Avoid supporting your children in public when they are wrong, mostly in front of neighbors, police, teachers, caution them when they are wrong, if you dont do this, they grow up thinking that everything they do is right and this could cause clash of interest with people subsequently
Take your children to your place of worship, dont leave them out of your religious worship, let them imbibe your religious beliefs and tenents. It reflects a better image of their personalities.