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Activities Doing chores is a useful way to learn persistence and to learn that when we live up to our responsibilities we enable others to trust and rely on us. A Job Well Done We need to show our children that we take satisfaction in acting properly and accomplishing difficult tasks. What to do 1. Through your daily activities, show your children that you care about a job well done. 2. Perhaps our children's most important tasks are to work hard at school and do homework. When we check homework and point out mistakes, we help them see how an error has arisen. When we let them correct errors themselves, we inspire self-confidence. It is also important for us to show them that we appreciate their good efforts. 3. Teaching our children self-respect does not mean complimenting everything they do. Our children also need our honest criticism from time to time. When we do criticize, it should be of things they have done, not them personally. 4. Most of all, we should help our children form the self-confidence and self-respect that come from opportunities to do good work as students or as family members. Helping our children form self-respect is based on how we treat them and our own example. There are many opportunities to teach self-respect through our actions: Dad, nobody's going to see inside the model's wing. Why do you work so hard with all those little pieces? Because that's the right way to build the plane, Martha. It makes the wing strong when the plane flies, and that's more important than what people see. I want to make the best plane I can. Do you want to help? Our Heroes Many children love to look at portraits or photographs, especially if you can tell them stories about the people in the pictures. What you'll need Family photo album (or a box or bag of pictures you've been meaning to put in an album) Portraits of impressive individuals from books or from history What to do 1. Select a photo of a person in your family with an impressive quality or accomplishment. Tell your child about the person and about what the person did. Perhaps your grandparents had the courage to immigrate from another country or your parents sacrificed in order to support you in school. Talk about the results of these actions. 2. Collect photographs from newspapers or magazines about impressive people in your community. With your child, talk about their actions that merit admiration or praise. 3. In addition to relatives or others, you may want to display portraits of other people who deserve our admiration and respect. A picture of Anne Frank, a young girl who wrote a diary while she and her family lived in hiding from Nazi Germans and who died in a concentration camp, can inspire conversation about courage and compassion for others. A portrait of Martin Luther King, a great civil rights leader who believed in nonviolent change, can lead to discussions of great accomplishment despite prejudice. Choose people whom you admire and feel comfortable talking to your child about. By stories we tell about the people we admire, we can inspire children and remind them of those qualities we think are important. Go on to the next section: |
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