Parenting > Character Development
To Clean or Not to Clean (Your Child’s Room)
Whether or not to help your child clean their room. It’s an age old dilemma. I still clearly remember my dad patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) explaining and demonstrating to me how to fold the sheet corners on my bed. I just didn’t understand how the way he learned to make his bed in the army had to do with me and how I made my bed. Why was he torturing me this way?
Homemaking School for Children
With it being summer vacation for the kids, a lot of us may be experiencing a messier house than usual. A solution to this would be to give the kids daily chores or, what I like to call it, homemaking school. Homemaking school will not only help the house stay tidier, but will also give your kids valuable lessons in housecleaning and responsibility that they will need now and later in life.
Knowing Right from Wrong
How do we teach our children about right and wrong? Where do they learn compassion, kindness, and other important morals? Are there practical ways for parents to shape their child’s characters? These are some of the questions we will be looking at in the next few weeks. For now, let’s take a look at the moral development of children.
Seven Steps to Criticize Your Kids
How do you give your child feedback without sound mean or nasty? How do you tell them how to improve without them getting defensive or angry? Is it possible to criticize your child in a constructive manner? There is such a way and it is not a secret. Most parents learned how to parent from their own parents. And what they learned about communicating to children was probably inadequate. No fault of our parents really, they just passed on what they learned to us.
Giving Our Children What They Need
As parents we all share one thing in common – we want to give our children every advantage possible. We all want better for our children than what we had. This is a wonderful ideal, but one which can cause significant turmoil and guilt for the parent, and perhaps unnecessarily so. We might do well to think back to our own childhoods and reflect upon what we consider to have been meaningful to us as children.
Raising Kids With Character
These are troubling times to raise good kids. And we don’t need researchers to share fancy statistics to prove it to us; we all know it. There are many reasons but here’s the simplest one: our kids are being literally bombarded with an unremitting assault of immoral messages and from sources such as media, television, movies, the Internet, music and peers and it’s taking a toll on their moral growth.
Nine Tips for Raising Unspoiled Kids
Our most important role is raising our kids to become capable, well-adjusted human beings. Here are nine tips adapted from my book Parents Do Make a Difference that enhance our parenting success in reaching that critical goal.