Tell them why
February 23, 2007 10:49 am Learning at HomeIn as much as your children can understand reason (and you feel comfortable in doing so), explain the why to them of decisions you make. Children must learn to reason for themselves, and the sooner you help them learn to make wise choices, the better off they will be. I’m not talking about whether to have chicken or beef for dinner, of course, but more involved things, like why you prefer to spend time with certain types of people, like why certain actions are wrong, like why you choose to dress a certain way if you do.
The key is passing on your values. You children and mine will pick up values from somewhere, and as much as we’d like to think it will just “rub off”, we need to understand that the ethics of the playground are going to be the deciding influence in their lives unless we are proactive in engaging their hearts.
Otherwise, it’s going to be like taking tenuate while continuing to gorge yourself on cake. You may look good on the outside, but inside, you’re just not healthy.
mrscrumley (17 comments.) :
Date: February 23, 2007 @ 6:38 pm
Tonight at dinner I recounted how F pushed a little girl off a stool at the kid’s museum. My husband then told turned to F and told him that F shouldn’t act like that b/c that is not how super heroes act. It will be interesting to see my little super hero grow and become a person.