7 Parenting Tips that can Encourage Personal Development in Children
Introducing effective habits and empowering techniques can help children learn responsibility, gain confidence, and make healthy choices from an early age.
If you’re a parent, don’t miss an important opportunity to teach personal development skills to your children. This is typically overlooked in schools mainly eager to satisfy laws and regulations on what they are required to teach, and in achieving a good overall SAT scores. Of course it’s hard to teach something if you don’t know it yourself, and cannot teach by example. It undermines your effort it you don’t do what you preach.
The following 7 suggestions can be structured throughout a child’s day so that both parent and child can focus on personal growth and development.
1. Self-Responsibility. Learning to take responsibility is a favored
attribute in children and adults. As kids understand that mistakes happen, they can develop fears about admitting when they did something wrong, even if it was an accident. It is important for you as a caregiver to acknowledge your own errors in judgment. Looking up to you for guidance, they will realize it’s wiser to admit when they’re at fault and claim responsibility for their actions and consequences.
2. Organizational Skills
From toddlerhood, children can learn day to day family routines and habits. By role modeling cleanliness, preparation, and organization in a fun and authoritative (not authoritarian) way, kids will develop a sense of comfort and trust. For example, instilling organization ability in a three year old can be done by designating a certain place for toys, clothes, and art supplies. As children enter higher grades in school, having organizational capabilities will be beneficial in order to balance class schedules, extracurricular activities, homework, social outings, and family obligations.
3.Do things as a family.
A family is a team…and teams practice together regularly, don’t they? Look for ways to connect your family members and encourage your kids to cheer each other on. Frankly, this can be as simple as everyone cleaning the house together for 15 minutes each evening. And playing a board game together occasionally doesn’t hurt, either. Are you starting to see that these are lifestyle parenting tips? Create a homelife that depends upon everyone interacting and connecting on a daily basis. You’ll see more peace and less family stress as an overall result.
4. Affirmations
Creating and saying affirmations, or positive statements of intent, can easily
be taught to children as young as two years old. Developing this healthy habit can be empowering as it helps kids create a purposeful day filled with love and confidence. You can work together with small and school-age children using morning affirmations in their daily routines. To help teenagers, you may suggest sticky notes on their mirrors or computer area as a reminder.
5. Manifestation Principle
Manifesting what you want in life is a conscious and co-creative process. Children are known for having insatiable desires and to directly involve them in a Law of Attraction experience can be rewarding and fulfilling. Some aspects to learn include the following:
-Honoring genuine needs and setting achievable goals
-Visualizing success by describing how you would think, feel, and act if your “wish” came true
-Working with the Universe to bring about your goal and following inner guidance
-Surrendering the situation and having patience with the process
-Expressing gratitude for all that you have, all that you are, and all that you receive
6.Enforce your rule, love your child.
There are a lot of conflicting ideas about discipline, punishment, time-outs, etc. when it comes to parenting. That’s why I want to offer you these 10 parenting tips that don’t require you to learn a different rule for every situation.
Separate the child from the behavior. Love the child…deal with the behavior. In your mothering. train your kids to know that they are totally responsible for their behavior, good and bad. Hold them accountable. But don’t see them AS their behavior. They may accidentally (or intentionally) hurt another child…but they are not a hurtful person.
7. Develop outstanding character.
Ask yourself what’s important in your family life…ipods? Season passes to your favorite sport? When your latest promotion will happen?
How about instead…if the kids learn about commitment from watching your marriage. If they are developing a work ethic by doing daily chores and watching you have a good attitude about your job. If you learn that teaching children to tell the truth is more about your honesty than theirs. How about giving a weekly prize for the family member who does the most random acts of kindness?
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