To Give The World Respectful Children, Raise Them Respectfully
In order to give the world respectful children, it is important that they are respected in their childhood, during the first years of life that mark their growth as a person. When talking about different styles of education and upbringing, parents are free to use the method that they think is most appropriate according to their values.
One aspect that you must never neglect, however, is happiness for the children. You must also remember that adults are responsible for teaching children to build a better, more noble world. Raising your children is an act of responsibility and the most important job you want to accomplish. You can not become obsessed with it or strive to be the most perfect parent. Sometimes you just need to follow your own heart.
In today’s article we will talk about how to raise conscious and respectful children.
Loving, respectful children
When a child is born, you do not know much about them yet. And you are not going to learn everything in just a few months or years when they start creating their character, and maybe they do not even respond to what you yourself are trying to teach them.
Each child will develop their own taste, their own identity, and have their own passions and worries. Children are not copies of their parents, nor is it your duty to decide everything they should think or feel.
Your job is to follow them in this process of growth with love and respect. If you want respectful children, there is nothing better than raising children who are respected, loved and valued.
Respect the natural growth of your children
During the 90’s, the topic of early stimulation became very important. It is undoubtedly something fantastic and an important strategy for letting children with developmental problems improve some basic processes.
- Now, do not confuse the term early stimulation with “acceleration”. There are some mothers who are obsessed with having children who are more skilled readers when they are four years old.
- There are families who teach their children to solve mathematical problems when the children are five years old, and then they have already started to study two foreign languages and also go to ballet, music, play football…
- Sometimes acceleration can bring stressed children into the world. Stress, anxiety, and the pressure to perform according to certain expectations will never result in respectful children.
- Let the children grow with the “slow fire of love”. Let them play, let them discover the world before them, take their first steps, fall in the park, run, fall down, and get up again…
All of these exercises respect the growth of your children. When they feel loved and respected, they will also be respectful.
Understand their feelings and help them channel what they are feeling
When you raise your children’s voice, tell them “You’re too old to cry,” or “I have no time for such nonsense, I’m tired,” you will change their emotional world forever.
- Respectful upbringing is carried out in a way that enables them to channel their emotional world, to understand their anger, fear and anxiety…
- Respect for one’s feelings is an exercise in health and growth that your children will always be grateful for.
- If they feel they are being heard, if they see that every word they say will be taken up, they will grow in security and maturity.
Upbringing with respect does not mean that you have not set any boundaries for the children. This is necessary. Just as the rest of society sets yours, our little ones must be able to accept certain rules and responsibilities.
Teaching them rights and responsibilities is also a form of respect in the upbringing of a child. It gives them the opportunity to control their frustration and understand what is expected of them at all times.
Set boundaries
A child who does not know what his boundaries are will try to cross them every day, leading to negative results and leaving them with a sense of frustration and loss. Respectful children, on the other hand, want to know how to respect themselves.
As you can see, this kind of respectful upbringing is something that many families practice every day, and they do so because they understand that love and respect are invisible bonds that guide the development of their children.
Children must be able to walk safely, but must feel free to keep their own pace, to know what they can and cannot do. Become the best role model for your children. Remember that right now they are the “young students” of life and they learn more from examples than from words.