The Importance of Teaching Ethics In Children

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ETHICS is one of the lessons that must be instilled in a child from an early age because it will be beneficial throughout his life.Moral education should begin to be taught starting from the home environment, then continuing school and community environments. So the role of parents is vital in determining the development of his son's personality.   

By teaching ethics to the child is expected to form a straight personality so that the child will be able to improve the quality of life and live in harmony with the norms prevailing in society.   

This article will specifically discuss tips that parents can do in the learning process of ethics to children.   

Many people argue that the attitude and personality of a person will reflect the parenting pattern of the parents. So the behavior of children in community life can reflect the state of the home environment and the following tips should parents do when teaching ethics to children.   

Teach The Words Of Beginning 

Children are like white paper so the role of parents is to describe something beautiful on paper. Similarly, when educating children by teaching to say "please" when wanting to say and say "thank you" after receiving help from anyone and this ethical education can be taught when a child starts learning to talk.   

Giving a Good Example   A child, especially a toddler, tends to often repeat everything they receive, see or listen to. So your job as a parent is to give a good example to the child by speaking softly and not angrily so that the child will imitate your good behavior as a parent.   

Familiarize Respect   

A sense of mutual respect can also be instilled to children early on in a simple way as you as a parent have to patiently listen to what the child is talking about and should not interrupt because such a habit reflects disrespect.   

Likewise your attitude toward your spouse should also reflect your tolerance and mutual respect so the child will automatically follow the good habits.   

Correct Wisely   

During the process of development of a child must do a lot of mistakes, your attitude as a parent should be wise and must understand because along with the many mistakes made will be no lesson that can be taken that the child's experience of life will increase.   

So during the process, you must make a wise correction if one day the child made a mistake thus when the adult child also has a high tolerance for the faults of others.   

Maybe that's just some tips to teach a child ethics and courtesy, it must be recognized reality is not as easy as theory so to do all the above tips require patience in shaping the child's personality because essentially every change takes time.  

by @dsatria