Teaching Children Good Manners
Teaching children good manners is something all parents need to be concerned about while their children are in their developmental stages. Children who are taught good manners will carry those important skills throughout their lifetime and will have an easier time achieving success in life because experts agree that children without social graces are likely to have a more difficult time with friends, family and teachers. Having good manners goes a long way to boosting a child’s self esteem!
Teaching Children Good Manners: The Early Years
Teaching children good manners is something parents should start while their kids are young and impressionable. Even children as young as 18 months can benefit from being taught good manners. There are a couple of keys to teaching children good manners while they are still young:
- Make good manners a fun game
- Make introducing good manners into your children’s daily routine.
- Start small and expand on the rules. Prioritize what you think is important for your child to do because learning is gradual.
- Give reminders and positive reinforcement because negative reinforcement can have an adverse affect on a child’s self esteem!
- Be consistent with your child’s manners practice and make sure to explain why they are punished for bad behavior.
- Most importantly: Be a good role model! If you, as a parent, exude bad manners, your children will learn bad manners because you are the number-one role model that your children will follow!
Teaching Children Good Manners: The Teen Years
Parenting teenaged children is both challenging and complex for most parents. One of the keys to teaching good manners to teenaged kids is to get them to recognize the values underlying good manners are important in and of themselves. At this stage in the game, third party resources may be extremely helpful teaching tools because teens have a way of “tuning out” their parents.
How BoostKids Can Help:
BoostKids is a program that can help increase a child’s confidence by teaching social skills to children and building their character. BoostKids has been and is currently being taught in schools, non-profit organizations, and after-school programs. The program is now available as an at-home training program for children and their parents. The key training tool of the BoostKids program is an interactive CD-ROM that shows kids the right-way and the wrong-way to handle social situations. They learn from real kid actors in real-life scenerios!
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