Effective ways to bring up your children

Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home.  If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.  ~George A. Dorsey

As parents, we love our children unconditionally. We support them, we guide and protect them and we set good examples to motivate them.

However, the most effective way is to mold your children to live life as what a person should be right from home. Here are some questions to find out how far your children are living the correct way:

1.      Are your children able to wake up all by themselves or you have to wake them up?

2.      Do your children make up the beds every morning?

3.      Do your children choosy about food or they just eat what you have prepared for them?

4.      Do they help in household chores every day such as doing the washing up?

5.      Do you insist that they must go to school except when they are not well?

6.      Whenever possible do you allow your children to go to school all by themselves?

7.      Do they go to school on time?

8.      Are they taking the initiative and help you carry things around?

9.      Do they notify you in advance where they are going and with whom and for what purpose. Do they return home at a time that they have promised?

10.  Are they polite to all, rich and poor?

The more yes answers to the above questions mean they are being brought up the right way.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  ~Frederick Douglass

These are what we want our children to be:

·         Independent

·         Self-disciplined

·         Hardworking

·         Be responsible

·         Follow rules

·         To know life is not a bed of roses

·         Be strong

·         Treat people  alike

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.  ~Abigail Van Buren