Education in values in children.

mildreduh (64)in #steemiteducation • 8 years ago (edited)

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Education in values in children.

The education in children's values is really important, because it will allow them to adapt to the environments, to coexist correctly with other people, to solve conflicts with greater ease, to generate a feeling of goodness with themselves.

Many values must be instilled in them, for example, understanding, friendship, solidarity, patience, and respect are some of those that can not be missed.

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It is important that children know these values so that they can also respect others and lead a completely healthy life, where he is also respected by others.

Educate in values.

Values education starts at home.

Parents should be clear that the place where they must learn the values is at home, although when they are in school those values are going to be reinforced, it is the duty of the family that they know them and above all that they practice them.

The proper way to educate in values is to educate by example, so parents, in addition to teaching them with words, must act consecutively with what they are being taught.

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In addition, this must be a continuous learning, the values are rooted with time, so it is not just about giving them a class one day telling them what the values are, what they are and what they will be used for in life.

On the contrary, it is a daily learning and which should be practiced with the answers and attitudes that they have in front of different situations that are presented to them.

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Winning the values of Education

To a greater or lesser extent, we all know children whose behavior leaves a lot to be desired. Children who, regardless of the importance of the moment or situation in which they find themselves, show unwanted and harmful behaviors whose repercussion, most of the time, falls on the parents, who are usually criticized and held responsible by the rest of the people , who meet with them sharing the situation.

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After these behaviors, it is usual for parents to arrive home ashamed, humiliated and injured. They often scold them and even punish them as a reprimand for what happened. But after this, later those situations are repeated. In addition, this type of behavior "does not understand situation", and it is usual to take place at any time (family reunions, with friends, in school ...). They will manifest themselves in any place and in any way, either through an insult, a tantrum, a misplaced comment. Many families end up resigning themselves by shielding themselves from these with the typical phrase of "we can not do anything, he / she is like that, punishments do not work and nagging, always do it again".

Despair leads families on many occasions to surrender, leaving impossible the children, whose bad behavior, to do nothing to avoid it, will go on the rise becoming aggressive, dangerous and extremely rude youth. In short, in people socially unadapted.

In all this, a fundamental aspect must be taken into account: the incredible value that children have for learning through the observation of models. For that reason, parents should be very careful with the comments, actions and opinions, which they express in front of them, since the little ones will assimilate everything they observe of their parents as if they had the "absolute truth", acting accordingly.

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Unfortunately, we find children and adolescents who manifest sexist, racist and intolerant behavior towards others. Behaviors that for those who suffer them can have very serious consequences. Done this one that manifests the need to eradicate them as soon as possible.

The first line of this intervention should take place in the home. As mentioned before, the example of the parents is of vital importance. So they must be very careful with their behaviors, opinions and comments. They should be involved in the education of their children trying to ensure that their teachings revolve around the promotion of good social skills, that integrate the child into society, not that they exclude him from it.

Educate from the respect.

Educate from respect and tolerance towards those most socially disadvantaged; from cooperation and the value of integration. Educating with assertiveness, with empathy and encouraging an adequate communication open to active listening, will lead to the appearance of behaviors of this nature in children.

In the same way, it is essential that in the house there are a series of limits and norms, consensually implanted. Many families think that the limits are harmful for the little ones, that the less there is much better, but the reality is that the limits, far from being harmful, are necessary, and to implant them both parents must agree, for which they must leave one side their differences, which as independent individuals may have, and decide for the sake of children.

Employ the game as a precursor of values.

On more than one occasion, the importance of the game in acquiring skills and abilities has become clear. We know its great benefits at a cognitive and affective-social level: it stimulates intellectual development; psychomotor skills; the creativity; the communication ; team work; fosters social relations and cooperation. It also contributes to improving the self-esteem and self-concept of children, being practically essential in their personal growth.

This is the reason why it can be so important when it comes to making them understand the meaning of many of their behaviors and the repercussion of their consequences on others.

The game and the Sport suppose a great opportunity to learn of the errors, to respect norms and to understand the meaning of the same. That is why we must pay close attention to what kind of games and sports they prefer and what they bring to them. As in practically any other activity, there are games that promote values but also others that foment violence and all kinds of beliefs and erroneous roles.

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They should be promoted from the very beginning, activities that contribute to the use of everything beneficial, that is, activities that, in addition to having fun, transmit life lessons.

As an example of these we can mention the use of stories as reflexive material; we must promote reading among the little ones, posing them later as an exercise, explaining what they have read and what conclusions they have obtained; helping them to make sense and discover the message that each one can have.

They should present this activity in an attractive and entertaining way, using enjoyable readings with which they can acquire a good reading habit that accompanies them for life.

Other types of activities that may contribute to this end are those of "hypothetical situations"; that is to say, to propose a series of situations in which a certain character manifests different behaviors - adequate and inadequate -, proposing later the reflection of what would be the best way to act, (this type of activities also contribute to the development of assertiveness and social skills).

To achieve this end we can use role plays that are usually very interesting, as they allow us to discover beliefs that children have about certain topics and how they can influence them.

These are some examples of games that can contribute to an education in values, but practically any game, well used, can be a great precursor of values.

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In all this, we must emphasize the need for the implementation of values and standards at home by parents, who must "play on the same team" at the time of agreeing, trying not to disagree with these in front of children . And of course, the limits and norms should be based on values that contemplate respect and tolerance.

Only in this way will we avoid the manifestation of unwanted and harmful behaviors, and we will also lay the foundations for greater security and satisfaction with themselves.