Sunday, May 15, 2011

MANNERS TO BE TAUGHT TO KIDS

Every parent wants his kids to be polite and well behaved in day to day life. And it is a fact that teaching manners starts at home. But a parent has to be patient in teaching those manners to the kids. Most of the times, we get impatient and the important lessons that a child should learn at home, can not get it. Then the parents, themselves, have to suffer in future. I have tried to list the manners that a child can learn at home from his parents and family members. I hope this will provide a great help to the parents and particularly to the to be parents.
1. WISHING THE FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE GUESTS - It is most often seen the parents complaining that their kids do not wish the family members and particularly the guests.This is the most important manner that every parent should teach his kids. In fact, he not only wants but also tries to inculculate in his children but fails to do so because of his impatience. If your child does wish you, just keep wishing him good morning or good evening or good afternoon and asks him when we should say these words. It would help him to learn these things easily.
2. TABLE MANNERS - The next important manner for a kid to learn is how to eat while on a table. These are the manners that make us uncomfortable while visiting outside and bring us shame. The things like not eating with their mouth open, not making noise etc may be good life lessons. Generally the problem with the children while eating is that if the food is not of their choice they make a lot of fuss about it and it becomes hard for the other family members to take their food. Further, the eating time of the children should be made regular.
3. SHARING - Most of the times the parents face the problem that their children do not like to share their things with others but they are ready to take others. They need to be taught that if they do not share their things with other, then nobody will like to play with them and also share his things with them.
4. ALWAYS SAY PLEASE AND THANK YOU - The next important manner a child must learn is to say please for getting a service or a thing. They should also learn to say thank you for the service they got. Some can say that this is too early for the children to learn this rule. But I think it is good as early as it is learnt. It will help them in future life to develop good relations.
5. MIND YOUR LANGUAGE - The children are like a blank paper. They learn from what they see happening around themselves. If your kids are speaking bad language then no one else but you and only you are responsible for this. If we want to teach our children good language, then, just say nothing to him but speak politely and in well behaved manner with him. And most importantly do not laugh at his rough language, as it will encourage him to speak like that.
Home is the first school for the kids before entering into the four walls of so called school. Before going to school, the child has learnt so much from his home and parents that can mould his whole life in a good or bad manner depending upon what he has learnt. The most important quality needed for the parents is PATIENCE to make his child well behaved. Be patience and continue in your effort to make your kids polite and well-mannered. If you think any other manner important for the kids to be learnt at home, then please do not hesitate to give comment.

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