Inculcating new habits in the mind of children is the best gift that a parent could ever provide,
While we celebrate children’s day, we see many events taking place across the world and most of them seems commercially motivated. While mass commercial advertisements are running on medias, we observe parents giving away material objects to children as a trend, and posting them on social media seems adding this further.
While we find challenging to allocate time with our children, it’s a must that we invest our time and energy on activities in the areas of inculcating good habits which are essential for your child’s future existence. “Remember our children’s Future will always be beautiful but will come with more challenges than what we have faced during our time”.
Like to highlight two essential skills which your children need for their future and we see its fading away, such habits are reading and saving.
Inculcating the habit of reading is one of the key areas that parents should work towards, unlike our generation, due to technological advancement, electronic devices are freely available in the home front and our children have the tendencies to get carried away with the devices. They prefer more digital, visual based learning and we as parents in a way too prefer as this doesn’t need your time as the phone and the TV will take care.
While acknowledging the fact that TV and Phones can be a tool to educate children, it also can become a major challenge in developing new skills such as reading.
The best way to bring such reading talents is by providing them the right materials and motivation to read. Spend your time reading with your children, show them that you too are reading which will encourage them to read and eventually end-up installing the key skill for your child’s success.
Prepare a score board on reading, based on the score board reward your children. Bring reading to your system at home and make it part of daily routine and task.
Inculcating the habit of saving is another area where parents should consider bringing among their children. We some time take financial discipline for granted, and we think exposing our children to money at early stage may not do good. However, its best we start with a small step, such as eliminating unnecessary expenses, making them think twice before taking purchasing decisions. You apply this at the time of schooling and teach them how to manage their money while schooling.
Train your children to manage their expenses within a set budget and give them a target to save out of their pocket money.
While they grow and you see them reaching the age of 19. Start teaching them gradually about bad debts and good debts, discuss about debt traps, which will make them prepared to face the world at the time of leaving the school and starting to work.
Prepare your children not only with required skills to meet the employment but also ensure they are prepared with money management skills.
Teach them a scientific approach to handle money with evidence, so your children will believe in saving and start to manage their financials from day one.
Think wisely and program your children for a better tomorrow