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Elevating Parenting and Values
Author: adminby Dennis Jeffrey
Elevating parenting and values gives children a solid basis for making life choices. Young children naturally look to their parents for direction. Having a solid, well defined value system provides the necessary roadmap. It is imparitive that parents have a clear understanding of what is important and consistently live out these values.
read comments (0)By Stephen A. Elkins, PMP
Suddenly, we reached a point in my children’s lives where, unlike before, they not only understood what they needed to, but they were also willing to do it. It was time to lead from behind, and the transformation was much more difficult for me than it was for them.
The Beliefs We Teach Our Children: The Next Step
Author: adminBy Julie Redstone
“A new study in the scientific journal Child Development, Nov./Dec., 2006, shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
About 100 seventh graders, all doing poorly in math, were randomly assigned to workshops on good study skills. One workshop gave lessons on how to study well. The other group was taught about the expanding nature of intelligence and the brain.
The students in the latter group learned that the brain actually forms new connections every time you learn something new, and that over time, this makes you smarter. The group of kids who had been taught that the brain can grow smarter, had significantly better math grades than the other group.”
Michelle Trudeau, NPR-Morning Edition, Feb. 15, 2007.
In the progressive unfoldment of the idea that “you are what you believe,” many of us have learned to apply this teaching to help create a positive outlook in our children concerning what they are capable of intellectually, and what they can aspire to in any area they choose to pursue later on. We know how to encourage our children in the ways of worldly success.