3 Ways You Can Instill Success & Values Within Your Children
1. Help your children build a more positive self-image in terms of values.
Encourage them to share how they see themselves in these areas and how they can improve. Then discuss how these improvements might change their self-image. Help your children paint an exciting and vivid mental picture.
2. Tell your children stories about how your heroes or your friends came to accept and own specific values.
As you read or hear personal stories, take notes that will help you explain your values to your children in terms they can understand.
3. Create a family values chart. Place values across the top and the names of each family member down the left side.
Make copies so you can use one chart each week. As you notice a family member demonstrating a value, put a hash mark in the appropriate square on the chart. Encourage a little friendly competition to see who can get the most hash marks in a week.
You also can affirm the person who gets the most hash marks under a particular value or the one who gets hash marks under each of the values. Allow family members to recommend one another for hash marks.
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