How to shape your Kids Better
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Not all home visiting programs have equal success, however. Broader programs aimed at entire communities—such as public awareness campaigns and universal one-time nurse home visiting—are harder to evaluate and more expensive to implement, but a few have been associated with better parenting and lower rates of child maltreatment. Parent training programs outside homes seem to have only small and temporary effects, in general, according to a recent meta-analysis.
As I emphasized yesterday, there's no easy way to ensure kids become and remain healthy. But if policy-makers on the right want to help parents do right by their children, and those on the left want to relieve poverty and close social gaps, then family-supporting programs shown to promote child health might attract wide support. Sign up for our mailing list to receive ongoing updates from IFS. Interested in learning more about the work of the Institute for Family Studies?
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Shaping Your Child’s Character, not Personality
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or “How do I get my kid to " and we lose sight of the bigger picture. The truth is that there are many things that are more important in shaping our children than. Parents often have a tendency to blame children for their failings. In fact they fail to realise that it is their own role as parents that could be largely responsible for.
If character-building traits also lead to a good personality, so much the better. Socrates and Diogenes were not the most popular guys on the block, but they were probably the most content with their lives.
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Here are just a few of them: I believe you can and should shape character by teaching appropriate thought and action. But personality is different.
For example, you might want your quiet and sensitive daughter to learn to speak up for herself. This is a very noble intention. However, in my experience, if you really want your shy child to speak up, then you should help her become confident in who she is. If you keep telling her to be more outgoing, she will get a very loud and clear message that she is not good enough, that there is something wrong with her for being shy.
But if you love her for the quiet person she is, she will learn to be confident in herself. Being confident in her inner character will give her the ability to speak up for herself when necessary. Being insecure about her personality will only make her less confident and more anxious or shy. Our kids get plenty of messages from the world friends, classmates, tv shows about what their personalities should be. What they need from us as parents is an understanding of what their character should be.
In a week, Everett said, some students have only 90 minutes of physical education.
But her organization recommends that kids get that much activity each day. And doing more after school, she said, carries other benefits. Instead of thinking of exercise as something they have to do, such as gym class, kids can find healthy activities they like to do, too.
There is always something going on that you can get your child involved in.
Add a Family Member
One key for getting kids to be active is for parents to be active, too, experts say. Take the whole family for an after-dinner bike ride, or take a walk around the neighborhood, or head to the back yard to toss a Frisbee. Kids often see parents placing a high value on their work life, Dudley said, and taking family time to be active shows kids that fitness is important, too. Forming such routines can have added benefits, Everett points out.
People are deemed desirable or undesirable on the basis of their personality: If character-building traits also lead to a good personality, so much the better. Even some chores have the added benefit of getting children outdoors--raking leaves, for example. But her organization recommends that kids get that much activity each day. A Stoic guide to family relationships.
It gets adults to exercise, and it helps children form healthy habits at an early age. They don't worry about sweat or about getting their hair messed up. Melinda Smith, coordinator for health and physical education at the Plano, Texas, school district, regularly makes time to swim, walk or bicycle with her 5-year-old son. Don't place too much emphasis on organized sports, either, experts say.