Family values

Lessons for Children Using Compliance and Example.

Look for both avenues when dealing with children, although the lessons they will remember and apply will be more the ones that are the product of example. Compliance is always a requirement for discipline, as children grow to school age discipline may be removed from the home environment, therefore the hours at home are ever more important for instilling family values that govern outside relationships.

Ongoing child rearing is all about proactive communication.

The four basic lessons of communal cohabitation are:

1.     Individuality (the importance of individual thoughts and actions)

2.     Respect (This includes the quietude of listening, showing respect for personal possessions and treating others as you expect to be treated)

3.     Personal Space (Learning to see an imaginary bubble around oneself and respecting the same space around others)

4.     Unified Concern (Learning caring concerns whether they are injuries of body, mind or spirit)

Teaching of children is easiest when these principles are noticed and pointed out as examples, look for opportunities where pause and observation is worth a thousand words.