Happy Parenting

Teaching Values and Ethics to Children

It is a great responsibility on parent’s shoulder to teach their kids values and ethics so that they grow up to be responsible moral citizen of the country. Teaching your child about these issues require patience. Kids may be tempted to do something that may be immoral or unethical. The idea is not to punish them but to make them understand how certain behavior is undesirable.

As a parent, you should be able to control your temper and understand the mentality of your child.Giving them love and respect along with teaching them good values can make your child a good individual. However, it is important that this process is started at an early age. Motivate your child to be honest, to respect elders, to be kind, to not steal and lie etc.

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We are always responsible for everything we think, say do, or feel. We alone have the power to choose what happens to us. Often, we shortchange ourselves because we believe we are less than we actually are. We are the enemy.

It is important to have faith in our abilities, to believe in ourselves. Now, I am not suggesting conceit – that rare disease affecting everyone but the person who has it. Rather, I want to build a reasonable confidence in your own power to reach your goals. How can you do this? Success begins when we learn what it takes to build a stronger self-concept.

We don’t perform according to our actual abilities. We perform according to our perception of our abilities. Dr. Joyce Brothers, a noted psychologist, in a Parade magazine article says, “An individual’s self- concept is the core of their personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior – the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change, the choice of mates, friends, and career. It’s no exaggeration to say that a strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life”.

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              Parenting is a serious business. Probably one of the biggest responsibilities of a person in his/her lifetime is raising the kid in most appropriate and effective manner. A kid is said to be like clay and how you handles him/her, results into how he/she turns out to be as a person. It’s about molding the kids using kid gloves, literally! One of the major concerns of parents is how to handle kids in public place in case of their throwing tantrums.To begin with, it does not take knowledge of rocket science to figure out ones’ kids’ psychology.

           Parents have more knowledge of their kids than anyone else. Knowing kids’ sleeping pattern, restlessness, his or her being stubborn about certain things, behavior in crowd are few things a parent must be aware of. While going out, parents must be prepared for any such eventuality.Another method is to have the child entertained by giving him toys, books, colors and such things. This helps in keeping the kids occupied and proves useful in preventing any potential tantrums.

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Self talk is intrapersonal communication. We usually indulge in a lot of self talk. It has been assessed that around 1400 words every minute travel in our brains which convey as well as express many thoughts which mold or form our views of the world around us and determine our intellectual state of mind.

Much of the self talk is in fact the effect of a person’s thinking just coming out of our subconscious mind and is our past conditioning and many other aspects which has effect on our subconscious process of thinking.

When you indulge in the self talk, the conversation which you enter into with yourself almost always is the most powerful factor of our intellectual state. If many of them are extremely negative, like “I’m not at all good”, or “I’m a failure”, will make you most unhappy with low motivation and confidence.

However, if a persons self talk is highly positive and lifts up his confidence, then the reverse is always true. You can easily use the mental self help to change other persons self talk to negative state from the positive state.

Like for instance, you engage in self talk with yourself on the way your life should be, there are chances that your life could turn out the way you want it to be. So, just talk with yourself to improve your outlook and personality. However, these techniques are cumbersome for a person to apply and generally take a long time.

One of the most suitable methods of enhancing the self talk is by making use of the positive affirmations. Nevertheless, in order to make them work, they need to be performed properly. This is very easy way to change or modify one’s self talk, you just start speaking to yourself in a favorable and optimistic way and with perseverance, your deep subconscious mind start changing its habits and now your self talk develops the positive tones!

If you indulge in the negative talk or declarations of things you don’t like or want, would in fact increase a person’s negative energy flow and would just condition your subconscious mind to achieve what you never want in the first place