Human development research shows that humans have seeds of care, empathy, and compassion from the time they’re born. However, if you want your child to become an ethical and caring person, you must help them in every stage of their growth and water those seeds so that the plant germinates into a strong tree by the time your children are mature.
Here are 3 ways you can raise caring, respectful, and ethical children.
1.Develop Loving and Caring Relationships with Your Kids Why?
Children learn to care and respect other people when they’re treated the same way. When children feel that they’re loved and care for, they become attached to their parents. This attachment makes them open to learning the values that you, as a parent, are trying to teach them.
How?
Love and care for children can take any form like providing them with a secure environment to live, tending to their emotional and physical needs, respecting their boundaries, showing, affection, taking interest in their work, affirming their achievements, and talking to them about things that are important for them.
2.Be a Moral Mentor and Role Model
Why?
Children are quick learners. They learn ethical behavior and values when they watch their elders do the same. Children will only listen to you if you walk the talk.
How?
You must pay attention to whether you’re honest, fair, and caring towards yourself and managing your anger well. We know that nobody is perfect. That’s why we must teach self-awareness and humility to our children by acknowledging our mistakes and learning from them.
We must realize what’s getting in the way of our nurturing. Are we stressed or exhausted? Do our kids do certain things that make it tough for us to care for them? Note that your child will only want to emulate your behavior if they respect and trust you. If you see that your kid isn’t respecting you, think about how you can change that dynamic.
3.Encourage Children to be Change-Makers and Ethical Thinkers
Why?
Naturally, children are interested in ethical questions, and dealing with such questions can help them figure out answers to questions like what do they owe to others? What is fairness? Etc. Often, children are interested in being the forces for good. Throughout history, we’ve seen that children and youth have tried to bring a change that values respect and care for instances building communities centered on anti-cruelty and anti-bullying.
How?
You can help your kids become change-makers and ethical leaders by letting them listen to their hearts and helping them think about their ethical dilemmas like, “Should I go to my friend’s birthday party when I know that my other friend won’t be happy about it?” Simultaneously, you can help your children fight injustice so that strong feelings of right and wrong are rooted in them from a young age.
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