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4 Values You Can Teach Your Growing Child As A Mother

As children come of age, it is the responsibility of the parents to prepare them with the essential things that they need to begin schooling. Parents want to ensure that their children know their basic skills like counting to ten or buttoning their clothes. 

Though these are important, the values that the children are taught will shape their foundation as they go to school, communicate with others, and begin their life journey. 

So, let’s look at some of these values that a mother can teach her growing child.

Accountability

A mother should teach her child the importance of accountability. Accountability determines how a child acts in their everyday life, and it can be seen in a child-parent relationship. But its result would begin to show when your child comes of school-age, since they would need to be owners of their actions without the guidance of their parents.

When you teach your children to take responsibility for their actions, they learn humility. However, if you don’t know how to educate your child, you can draw lessons from some amazing women in the bible and apply their teachings.

As a mother, if your child makes a mistake, you should help them to see their error. First, let it be a self-created experience that they learn from. Then, help them examine what should be done to ensure they don’t repeat the same mistake in the future.

Open Communication

Another core value that a mother should teach their children is open communication. With open communication, your child will be able to express their concerns and needs freely. Additionally, you would be able to build strong relationships with your child. 

Even for your child, ensuring that they have open communication at home would ensure they can communicate efficiently at school and beyond.

Respect

A mother should always emphasize the importance of respect for their child. It would be best if you instilled this value in them before they are five to ensure they have a good foundation for future respectful behaviors. 

Additionally, maybe more than other values, your child will learn more by your example. For example, do you exercise manners when you speak with your child? Do you speak with your spouse with respect? 

Your first step is to teach your child about basic respect and courtesy. Then you move ahead with complex respect teachings like teaching how to respect a person’s different opinion.

Honesty

The importance of honesty as a value for every child is immense. Children learn from the actions they see and experience. So for your developing child, you should develop a truthful disposition. A mother shouldn’t be dishonest in her child’s presence. Instead, model yourself as an example of honesty. 

Children are fast learners and can take up what they see. Therefore, you should desist from even telling ‘white lies’ in front of your child. 

That’s A Wrap 

As a mother, you should instill moral values in your child from a young age. You do not need to wait for them to grow up before you begin. Values play a significant role in building a child’s personality, and they can determine how your child shapes their life.

Rachael is a 31 year old mum to 10 year old Luke and 5 year old Oscar. She lives in England and writes about family life, crafts, recipes, parenting wins(and fails), as well as travel, days out, fashion and living the frugal lifestyle.

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