Parenting Tips: Instilling Good Character in Kids
What are your best tips for helping children develop strong character and a sense of right and wrong? Share practical advice, family traditions, or lessons that have worked for you. Your experience can help other parents in the group guide their children toward positive values.
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In this modern time some critical things need to be established. There is such a thing as truth. Yes, I am actually typing this. You are reading this. Somethings are "grey" but when you ask the right question, there is an honest answer, not a maybe. We either exist or we don't. That is foundational to having morals. Logically, morals don't stand on their own, if they have no source. Then it's just "opinion." So as has been answered God gave us a basic framework to stand on and "stay out of trouble." That was personalized by Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the life. We could not know the way, how, without Him. He is the truth. We can only fully have life in Him. For practical teaching, teach your kids when very young. We told them they only get one warning, then consequences. A friend added, "if I have to get up, it's too late." The basic idea is safety and stopping rebellion in the kids. Safety is obvious. But where we all get in trouble is rebellion. Watching for those 2 things gives structure and freedom. Kids want and need both. That means seeking wisdom for when to allow them to fail so they may learn on their own.