Teach your children to be responsible

Explain to your child about responsible living

Talking to children about being responsible can be difficult. However, with specific actions, parents can help children gradually understand the concept of “responsible living”. For example, with young children, when they finish playing with toys, they must clean up and put the toys in the right place, which is responsible living. Or when you spill milk on the table, you need to wipe the spill with a towel.

With older children, parents need to help children understand, live responsibly is to always be proactive in everything, self-consciously study and work, dare to do, dare to take responsibility for their own actions, not blame others. Children live responsibly and at the same time need to behave properly, know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad… For example, if a child does something wrong that affects others, he or she needs to apologize and find a way to fix it. consequence.

Parents should never think, “When a child is young, he already knows what”. Responsibility is not only an obligation but it is a positive attitude that everyone must have. No matter how much parents love their children, they cannot protect their children forever, to grow up children need to live responsibly.

Encourage your child to live independently

In order for children to live responsibly, from a young age, parents need to encourage children to live independently. Parents should not do the work for children, let children discover life on their own. Children need to be equipped with basic life skills such as: taking care of themselves; prepare books and clothes to go to school; clean your own room yourself; prepare meals with parents, do housework… These things children need to do naturally and skillfully, be responsible for small things, then they will be responsible for bigger things later.

Many college children have to live far away from home but do not know how to cook and clean the house, because when they were young, they were spoiled by their parents, so they didn’t know what to do. Being used to living dependent on parents will make it difficult for children to grow up in life management.

Teach your kids how to manage money

Vietnamese children are often given access to money by their parents quite late, because many parents believe that money is a tempting material that can spoil children. In fact, in Western countries, especially Jews, they expose their children to money from a very early age, so that when they grow up, children know how to spend scientifically, the possibility of success seems to be also easier to achieve than children who are exposed to money too late.

Children need to learn how to manage their spending from an early age, especially how to save money so that they can manage their finances wisely when they grow up.

Time management

Time is gold, silver, if children know how to manage time from a young age, when they grow up, they will have a scientific and orderly life.

Parents need to guide or ask children to make a scientific timetable and try to stick to that timetable. Children should go to bed early, get up early, go to school on time, allocate time appropriately for learning, play and entertainment activities in a day…

Set specific goals

Parents can prompt children to set goals and make specific plans to accomplish those goals. This action is one of the best ways to teach children to be responsible. Children will have to try their best to complete the set goals. In case the child cannot achieve the goal, parents should encourage the child to continue to persevere in pursuing that goal.

Let children make their own decisions

Many parents have the habit of making decisions for their children, but rarely consult their children. Children also have their own views, parents should create conditions for children to have the right to participate and make decisions on issues related to them. For example, if your child likes to play a sport, you should sign him up for that sport instead of forcing him to learn a sport that you feel like. This summer, your whole family will go on vacation, don’t just discuss the couple, ask your child’s opinion, “Where do you like to go, what do you do?”. Being consulted by parents is the first step to help children form decision-making, children will think and consider to make the right and most appropriate decisions.

Parents, be an example

In order for children to be responsible people, parents must first be responsible people. To do so, you must always be exemplary, responsible for all your words and actions.

And in addition to teaching children to live independently, to manage time and money, to set goals and to plan for life, parents should also equip children with other important life skills such as good manners. have culture, know how to work in groups, know how to protect themselves, respond in emergency situations, know how to get up after falling…

During a charity event, former US President Barack Obama shared his tips on how to teach his two daughters to be good leaders. In it, he especially emphasized living responsibly. “What we want to pass on to our children’s lives is that each of us has a responsibility. When children are young, their responsibilities are very small. But as you get older, that responsibility also grows,” Obama said.

Mr. Obama said that responsibility marks maturity. As we mature, others will rely on us, that we are influential and that our efforts will help improve the lives of many. Mr. Obama also tried to instill in his daughters the basic values ​​of kindness, empathy and hard work.