When learning to teach children we must openly acknowledge the fact and understand that children need to be taught. When
a baby is born it has very limited
knowledge of life and reality. They have no knowledge outside of the womb. As
parents our responsibility is to raise our children in the best way that we can. This includes the duties that we have to teach them how to teach themselves to be independent and separate from us.
So, what do we teach our children, and how? A lesson should be taught each and every opportunity that comes. I have found that in every second of every minute of each day children are learning and absorbing knowledge. Children constantly are expanding their complicated and open minds, improving their skills in the process. How does a child learn? Children learn from observation, instinct, and by using their senses. We as parents must learn our children in order to understand them. Who are they? How do they act and respond? What are their ways of thinking? All children are very unique and individual; separate from whom we are. Every word that a mother and father speak to their children, every movement that we make, every action, facial expression, and every habit we have are picked up by our children. This is true with your children, and it is true with mine also. I have figured out that it is the way that I live my own life, and how I respond to every situation that in end determines how each of my three children do, both now, and in the rest of their lives. Children mimic and copy their parents in every way. How we act towards and the knowledge that is taught to our children now will determine how our children act both now, and for the rest of their lives. We are shaping their futures NOW. Knowing this, I can begin to teach my children ways a way to live that will improve their behaviors. I can only begin to do this once I have recognized my own behaviors, and have taught myself to live the way I wish to teach my children to live. If I become the best that I can be now I can at the same time teach my children to want and learn to be their best now. If I do not make the appropriate changes now I may be jeopardizing the future, for both my children and myself. By choosing not to improve I would be creating a lifetime full of confusion and ignorance. My family deserves the very best, as does your own it is now the time to make the changes and to teach our children what we want them to become. When I can live the lessons that I teach I become the ultimate lesson for my children to learn. I become a role model for my children, shaping them with the knowledge that they need for their survival and independence. The lessons I teach must be complete and comprehensive enough to be carried on throughout time. It is how I teach my children to live that will determine what it is that they teach their own children, so on and so forth. Children become their parents in all ways.