Last update: June 05, 2016
One of the tasks in life that requires greater responsibility is to educate one's children in the right way. To form a true human being and make a total contribution to his life, it is necessary to teach him to be able to love and to be loved.
For this reason, It is important to remember that you must be demanding towards yourself in a healthy way, trying to make your children develop the best part of you.. With this article we want to give you seven tips to educate your children with love, to achieve their present and future well-being.
"We cannot model our children according to our wishes, we must remain by their side and love them as God has given them to us."
-Goethe-
7 strategies to educate your children with love
Share the greatness of life with your children
Life allows us to be vulnerable; at the same time it induces us to love, as a means of not feeling insecure before the unknown. This allows us to learn. Sharing this way of understanding and enjoying life with your child will provide them with tools to overcome fear, anguish or pain.
Moreover, he will become aware of the fact that all these emotions are part of his growth, during which he will be able to enjoy that potential that allows us not to feel disconnected from our true self, therefore never to think of being alone. facing the world.
Help them verbally express their emotions
Children must be able to experience each of the emotions of human beings, both the positive ones and those socially considered "less positive".
At this point, it becomes essential to remember that emotions, in our daily life, represent treasures. For their personal growth, therefore, it is necessary to explain to them that they are all normal and that sometimes they take over our body.
Share and talk to the child about his emotions. As you develop in this way, as you grow up, you will become able to distinguish between anger and despair, between disappointment and sadness. She will learn to control and manage her emotions, expressing them appropriately.
"We can only pass on two legacies to our children: one is the roots, the other the wings."
-Hodding Carter-
Teach them to care and be aware of the people around them
It is a wonderful thing that at home they give their contribution in carrying out the daily chores. In this way, they will be able to feel responsible and, in their own way, self-sufficient. They will feel like individuals of value, who respect themselves, as well as the people around them.
We can teach them the importance of taking care of their body and to consider it a tool to be respected. If from an early age we become aware that the body is more than a physical medium, we can fully extract its potential, and then find the balance with our all when we approach maturity.
Show them their creativity
We live in an age in which for some time there has been the determination to largely exclude the fascinating power of art from our daily life. Many studies show that music, rhythm and dance are universal languages, which allow us to develop control of our body in a conscious and balanced way.
Incorporating any artistic practice into your child's routine will encourage healthy psychomotor development. In order for him to get a taste for activity and in order to further strengthen your relationship, stimulate him to feel free in every movement. That he is not afraid of doing it wrong and, above all, that in expressing his art he feels himself.
Create an environment that is a constant example
Grow them in an environment where they feel comfortable sharing moments and experiences with intelligent, valuable, strong, talented and honest people. This will help them develop as people, inculcating in them basic values ​​for their life.
Share with them the life and works of great characters in history: how they lived, how they came to be such and the importance of their inner beauty to achieve all this. Let him know that true talent and greatness are within us, not outside.
Teach them to be grateful and thankful
We human beings are characterized by sociability; consequently, we have every possible tool aimed at helping others seeking the unconditional well-being of all. Saying "thank you" and "please" in our daily life seems to be a gift.
In educating your child, to stimulate his human side, it becomes essential to share with him the importance of helping others, ultimately the essence and greatness of a person. He will also learn the centrality of cooperation and the bitter side of selfishness, or the need to give oneself to others automatically in order to feel fulfilled in the future.
"Do not spare your child from the difficulties of life, rather teach him to overcome them."
-Louis Pasteur-
