What is the most important value you want to instill in your children? Why? I think mine would be tolerance...but its hard to teach tolerance with all the bullies now-a-days. Thanks!!
2006-08-08 11:40:43 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
I have 4 grown children , 3 are married..and the 7th grandbaby on the way... and they are ALL so great !!! ( which is really saying something now a days !!! ) I raised about 6 other children too during my life that needed a "stable" environment....I would have to say "THE" most important thing is consistancy...you can't be wishy washy... kids need rules and believe it or not, kids really do want boundaries... when you say "no", it's no... when you say yes, they can know that they can bank on it. Just do what you say, and say what you do.
2006-08-08 11:57:02 · answer #1 · answered by Louie 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The most important value a parent can instill in their children is love and acceptance. Without those two values, it would be very hard to enjoy life!
2006-08-08 11:56:31 · answer #2 · answered by Cindy S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say honesty and undertstanding .. you are right we don't live in a perfect world w/o bullies because bullies are always going to be there..which is where tolerance comes in .. even in kids whenever a child stands up for him/herself in a situation where they are being bullied other kids will draw their strength from the child and stand up against the bully too ..
My daughter deals with alot of bullies daily but i've taught her that blooding someone's nose doesn't end things but rather encourages it more .. not teaching her to be a wimp mind you but teaching her that violence just leads to more violence .. hope this helped!
2006-08-08 11:50:38 · answer #3 · answered by tantalus1076 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am trying to teach my children values like kindness, self respect and tolerance. They all go hand in hand. Bullies are all around us. Even as adults we deal with them. Teaching our kids how to deal with bullies very young is the first step to eliminating bullies from their lives.
2006-08-08 11:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by Christine B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To stand up for what is right.
My son, who is now 20, got in trouble in school, when he was in 1st grade. You know how some kids seem to be the target of bullies, well he knew one of them, she was a girl in kindergarten. She was getting taunted by the 4th and 5th graders. He went and told them to leave her alone and somehow it turned into a fight.
I got called to the school because he was fighting and he had to see the principal. He stood up to the principal, saying he would not have had to fight the older kids, if the teachers had been doing their jobs and watching the kids instead of standing around talking. He then told him how these older kids always teased this girl and no one did anything to help her and he felt he had to do it. So he did it.
I thought he was a pretty gutsy 6 year old, though he got punished in school, I told him I though he was right and was proud of him for doing the right thing.
He now is in the Navy. Once again he is making me proud.
2006-08-08 11:51:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could teach tolerance of people's differences.
That was one of my top 5 values.
#1 was to love & respect herself.
2006-08-08 11:44:12 · answer #6 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think i would want my two boys to not only have self respect, but respect for others, and honesty, tolerance, there are so many things to teach but they would be on the top of my list. also patience.
2006-08-08 11:49:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you can narrow it down to one core value. There are many values that need to be taught; trust, integrity, the ability to stand up for oneself, hard work, dedication, so on and so on.
There isn't a most important value because they are all important.
2006-08-08 11:48:33 · answer #8 · answered by itsnotmyfault 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say respect b/c respect can bring many other things like love, tolerance, and so on. Respect is what this world needs to be about. lol
2006-08-08 11:47:33 · answer #9 · answered by Ange 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mine would be self-understanding. Next would definitely be acceptance/tolerance.
I want my children to be strong, to know who they are, to understand themselves and not feel pressured EVER to do something just because someone told them they should. I want my kids to challenge everything, and make their decisions based on knowledge THEY gain from learning and personal study.
And of course, the very next most important thing is for my kids to accept other people, to "live and let live" as it were. To not judge people on their actions, their appearance, their choices. Because I feel everyone has rights to personal self-expression and freedom. Not because of what country they are from, but because they are human beings FIRST.
:)
2006-08-08 12:12:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋