Children
learn how to be good citizens and good family members by watching and listening
to family and close friends. They pay attention to everything. Our little ones
absorb information about us and about what and who we care about through every
cell of their being. Be intentional about expressing your excitement about
people, places and things that you value.
If
you find something or someone to be worthy, important, useful, interesting,
then show it! Show it to your children in the way you speak and the way you
behave. Show it in your investment of time, energy and other resources. A
parent is the single most powerful teacher a child will ever have, and children
learn from everything parents do and say.
They
also learn from everything parents choose not to do and choose not to comment
on. If you love a friend or family member and think they are an awesome person,
spend time with them. Talk about them. Talk to your children about them. Hang
pictures of them in your house.
If
you love nature, spend time in it with your children. It is the early years of
intimate family life that teaches children the value of relationships to other
living things, including the earth on which we live. It is family who teaches
and models the principles of honesty, commitment, trust, process, recognition,
validation, connection, and living fully.
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