Prepare Your Children For Life 5 Tips to Overcome Obstacles

1. NAVA BHARATH NATIONAL SCHOOL Prepare Your Children For Life: 5 Tips to Overcome Obstacles

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3. How to use PowerPoint Designer • The secret is to prepare them to walk the path of life and not to prepare their path, removing the stones so that they do not stumble. Children have to learn to avoid those stones, to stumble and get up, to become strong, autonomous, safe and happy. • We cannot always provide them with everything, we have to teach them to be decisive on their own, to have their own initiative, to know how to work as a team. It is for their good, but also for ours, we are their parents, not their butlers, or their secretaries, or their bodyguards.

4. 5 tips for them to learn to be decisive on their own The return of the holidays is a wonderful moment to teach all this, since they are very small. 1. Teach them to do things Housework and errands help foster the values ​​I mentioned earlier. That they can fend for themselves. If from a young age you teach them to make their beds, to tidy up their rooms, to collaborate in cleaning the house, shopping and cooking the menus, you are preparing them to be able to survive in the future, you are giving them the tools to be autonomous, decisive, have initiative, know how to think and decide for yourself. The younger they are, the easier it is for them to be motivated by these activities and see it as a game. At an early age they love to collaborate and it is the ideal time to establish habits that over time will become virtues. Some tips to put it into practice would be

5. - Distribute household chores, teach how they should be done. • - Supervise the tasks with motivation, always look for something that is good and congratulate him, if there is something to improve, do it as advice, not as criticism. • - Change the tasks so that everyone learns them. Remember that success depends on teamwork, among all. • 2. Teach them to think, to use their intellect, to have criteria and reasons • How? With simple questions, which have several response options, for example: what would we do if the kitchen broke down at lunchtime? It is interesting to see the different solutions that children can provide. Avoid giving the solutions yourself, let them reason, just like when they ask you a question, tell them "what do you think? Or, what do you think?" Let them speak, express themselves, argue and reason, you always have time to teach them.- Play problem solving to think "what would we do if we forgot our car keys?"- Play asking questions to describe objects, places, people "what, how, when, where, why..."- Play riddles "What color is Santiago's white horse?"- Play to invent different endings to traditional stories, "what if Snow White did not like the fruit, what would the witch have done? What would have happened?"

6. 3. Teach them to choose between two options that you see well • This way they will learn to make decisions. With this, your son will feel older, since he can decide and will learn to see the pros and cons of things. Depending on their ages, you can start with simple daily decisions that, little by little, may have greater importance. • For example: "what do you prefer to wear today, the blue shorts or the white ones, or what do you prefer today for dessert, pear or apple? What do we do... do we walk or take the bus to our grandparents' house?" It is good that you analyze the advantages and disadvantages to be able to decide. • 4. Teach them to value things • Everything they have, what others do for them, the work of the people, to value each day that dawns... The one who values ​​things, takes better care of them and works twice as hard. • - Insists on the use of the word "thank you" , as the saying goes "well born is to be grateful", grateful for what they have and for what they are given. • - Create in them a positive spirit, paying attention to and always highlighting the good things. • Show them to see the bottle half full instead of half empty, optimism above all. • - Faced with a complaint there must always be at least a couple of good things that counteract it. • - When faced with a problem, we always look for a solution with optimism and, if we cannot do it alone, we seek help, but we do not give up.

7. 5. Teach them to love • Loving others, loving beauty, loving nature, loving what they do, in short, loving life. Because the human being needs to love and be loved, and that is also learned by the example of parents, relatives and friends. • - That they learn to observe the small details and discover the beauty of a landscape, a flower, a music... Flee from the tawdry and seedy, look for beauty in all senses. • - Teach them to be supportive, to put themselves in the place of the other to be able to love. Teach them what empathy is. • - For all of this; as a mother or father: motivate and let them do. And as a son: first I look and listen; then I think and learn; And finally, I act. • - There will be times when they make mistakes, nothing happens, that's how you learn. Let your children make mistakes and they will learn, while if you always do everything for them, not only will they not learn, but they will not have the need to do it for themselves and, of course, they will not enjoy the satisfaction that it gives, knowing how to do things oneself, achieving small challenges.

8. Avoid removing stones from their path: teach them to overcome obstacles • Are you going to deprive your children of all that for wanting to remove all the stones from the road? There are people who are very indecisive and it is because, always, someone has decided for them. • Life is not easy, there are good moments and not so good ones, of laughter and sometimes of tears, but therein lies the greatness of our experiences, in being able to experience all those emotions and learn something new every day. There are fathers and mothers who cannot cut the umbilical cord with their children and try to live their lives for them, paving the way continuously, without realizing that, in reality, they are doing them a disservice, preventing them from making mistakes, improving and learning. by themselves. • Prepare your children for the path of their life. Teach them to do things, to strive, to improve, to give to others, to share, to enjoy life. Show them how to be free to know how to choose and you will make them happy walking their own path, because they will know that you are always there to listen to them, to help them with whatever they need and support them in their own lives.

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