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Childhood is a time when children learn about the world by exploring it. This includes how to get along with others, both other children and adults.
Parents play an essential role in teaching their children how to form healthy relationships which in turn helps them grow into socially adept individuals capable of being co-operative and generous, able to fully express their feelings but most importantly, gives them the ability to empathize with others.
This lesson is most effectively taught to children by the parent themselves modelling the very behaviour they want to encourage in their child. This is because children learn best by example; they love copying what adults, and especially their own parents, do.
If you make a habit of always saying “please” and “thank you” or with lending a helping hand to people who need it, you are showing your children how you would like them to act and they’ll be only too eager to copy you.
Ask for your children’s help with daily tasks, and accept their offers of help. Remember to always praise your child’s good behaviour and traits and help them to realize how good they feel inside whenever they do a good deed or be generous with someone else.
Children with a strong sense of self worth and importance become socially competent and are comfortable in society. When a child feels good about themselves, it’s natural for them to feel good about others, treating them in a positive, helpful manner.
Encourage acts of generosity through sharing and cooperation. For instance, let your child know when it’s someone else’s turn to play with a toy or to have a go on the swing. And when they show signs of recognizing this on their own praise them for it – they’ll get a buzz out of it and want to do it again. Thank them for being polite and respectful and for sharing and cooperating with others, especially with non-family.
Children soon learn from their own painful experiences that words can hurt, and that name-calling, teasing, or excluding others affects how people feel. Whether they experience this negatively or positively by inflicting it or not inflicting it on others by depends to a large extent on how we as parents help them come to terms with it. Children want to be treated fairly, but they don’t always understand how to treat others the same way. One way to teach fairness is to explain a rule to your child, pointing out that it applies to him as well as to others.
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