Importance of Teaching Your Child Manners
If your child develops some good behaviors, people will appreciate you for your efforts. You deserve the credit of teaching your baby good manners. Similarly as a parent you are responsible to a great extent when your child behaves in a wrong way. Parents play the most crucial role in upbringing of a child.
Just as teaching baby to read, teaching your baby to eat or teaching your baby to bath is important, it is also necessary to teach your baby the right manners. Teaching your child manners is the most difficult task. Before you teach your child manners, you will have to practice them yourself. Otherwise you child will not follow you. Your child will not listen to you if you preach something and practice something else. So you have to be very careful while teaching your child manners.
Here are a few things that you should teach your child at an early stage of life.
- The best way to teach your child is to set example. Parents are the best persons to set example for children. If your baby can read, you can make them acquainted with the stories of legends. However your child can not see the legends, they are not alive. Your child can be inspired by the stories. But they will follow things more keenly if they can see them in front of their eyes. So you should preach things only when you practice them.
- While teaching your chills manners, your child can not learn all the manners at a time. You will have to teach your child manners in stages. The comprehensive skill of a baby develops over time. Therefore it is crucial that your baby understands what you are trying to teach him or her. The best time for a child to learn manners is when he or she can comprehend the reason behind a rule.
- Teach your child when he or she should say “thank you”, “sorry”, “please”, “may I”, “excuse me” etc. Knowing the use of these words at the right place is important. Whenever applicable, encourage your child to use these words. Make sure you do the same thing so that your child can follow you.
- When teaching your child manners, ask him or her to use a certain degree of formality while addressing adults. They should address your colleagues like Miss Rassle or Mr. Jonathon. Teach them they should call your colleagues uncle and aunty only if your colleague insist your child to say so.
- While interacting with your children, be careful about the language you use. If your child hears you uttering abusive language or slang, he or she will not only learn it but also use it while interacting with others. So be very careful.
- Teach your child to respect others including their friends as well as their juniors.
Finally don’t forget to teach your children etiquette like behaving quietly in public spaces, shaking hands, sharing food with others, not interrupting between conversations and so on.
Ethan Rosson is a baby care expert who writes on various topics like baby learning, early education etc. He recommends that you have a look at http://www.brillkids.com for details about teaching baby to read.
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