Children are a product of their environment both in nurture and nature. There are influences everywhere that will shape and mold the child into an adult.
As a parent, you have a lot of influence over your child, which can emerge in both positive and negative ways. Of course, you don’t want to do anything intentionally harmful to your child so it’s important to watch what you say and do around them as they grow.
With that in mind, there are a number of life lessons you can provide and teach to your children. Let’s take a look at all of the life lessons worth teaching your kids and that you can do around the home.
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Financial management
As your child gets older, they might find themselves earning money through part-time or weekend jobs. This is their first proper experience of money and money management. Not everyone is great when it comes to handling their finances, which is why it’s important to teach your children good money management, even when you don’t have it yourself.
There are plenty of helpful resources online that you can refer to in order to teach good financial habits for your children. From creating budget spreadsheets to track income and outgoings, to knowing how much things cost and understanding it’s value.
Having gratitude and appreciating everything you have in life is also a part of healthy financial management because appreciating the money they earn, is going to help them sympathize with and help others less fortunate.
Chores
While very few of us enjoy cleaning our own homes and do the mundane chores in and around the home, they’re a necessity that needs to be done regardless.
It’s important to stay on top of chores where you can so that it doesn’t build up around the home and you’re left with a bunch of them to do over the weekend. Doing a little, bit by bit, is going to make a big difference to how your home looks and feels.
With that being said, try to have a list that’s ongoing and that you can divvy out to other household members so that everyone is contributing to the chores around the home. At the end of the day, you share this home with others, so why should you be the only one to clean?
Chores are a great life lesson to teach your children so that they too can be prepared for their own future household.
DIY
DIY is a great skill to have but not everyone is blessed with the talents of DIY. Some might know how to stick a frame on a wall but that’s as far as their skillset goes. For some, drilling a hole in the wall might be too far.
With DIY, a lot of it’s self-taught, or if you were lucky, lessons from parents who were well knowledged when it came to the world of DIY.
Thankfully, we also have the internet, a great resource when it comes to needing information quickly and from a variety of helpful individuals and organizations. If you’re after DIY videos like ‘How to unblock a toilet in ten ways’ or ‘How to use a nail gun’, then you’ll find them online. That’s a big benefit that many generations before have lacked.
So that does mean that you can teach your children a bit of DIY, even if it’s learned from the internet.
Organization and productivity
Being organized and productive are two life skills that can really help an individual whether that be in the workplace or at home.
When a person is organized, they often show up to commitments in a timely manner and everything in their life is often well thought out.
Therefore, it’s beneficial to explore the ways in which you could teach your kids about productivity and organization. For your children, this is crucial during their years in education. Being able to do their homework outside of class and meeting deadlines, as well as studying for exams – these all require good productivity and organization.
Cooking and baking
Some people unfortunately don’t have talents in the kitchen and often it’s down to not being exposed to cooking or baking from a young age. While this might come in the form of cooking classes at school, they are not always accessible or well-attended by kids.
Therefore, it’s useful to give your children some cooking and baking lessons early on in order to get them used to the kitchen and all things food.
Introducing them to cooking and baking can also improve their relationship with food, which is important as they grow up.
Communication
Communication is something that everyone should be good at but that’s not always the case. Therefore, you should look to teach your kids communication skills, especially when it comes to their emotions.
Handling the big emotions used to mainly be met with a lot of anger and frustration. However, it’s good to communicate calmly and cautiously with your kids, rather than meeting their frustration, upset, or anger with a negative emotion.
While it can be hard to do, it can be great for them to handle their emotions more easily. Communication is a skill that they learn as they grow, so try to encourage it wherever and whenever it’s needed.
Manners and respect
We all want to be respected and appreciated. We all want to be loved so it’s essential that you’re teaching your children manners and respect. After all, everyone deep down is the same, we’re just different in how we look and act.
Teaching your kids manners and respect will go a long way in contributing to a more equal society that’s filled with love, rather than hate. No child is born to hate another child, so it’s important that you’re teaching them both manners and respect for everyone they come into contact with.
These helpful life lessons all play an important part in the upbringing of your child, so make sure you’re providing them with plenty as they grow.
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