Affirmations:
I treat every child with respect, trust and love.
I treat everyone as I want to treated.
I demonstrate by my behavior and words what is the best I know.
I take impeccable care of myself so I am able to respond to everyone with
my best love and wisdom.
What Do You Want Children to Learn?
Children
learn from what they feel, see and hear.
Children copy the
authority figures around them.
Children make up the
world they see is what they will be.
Children learn from
everything they experience in their world.
Adults
learn from what they feel, see and hear.
Adults copy or rebel
from the authority figures around them.
Adults make up the
world they see and hear is what they will be.
Adults learn from
everything they experience in their world.
When
we trust what seems to be is what will be, we allow what we experience to
define us.
When we believe what
we hear on TV, gossip, stories, books, teachers, we make it our Truth.
When we doubt what
we hear on TV, gossip, stories, books and teachers, we become able to choose.
Learning what is
real is only a point of view, an interpretation or one truth, and may generate
new ideas.
To
be conscious, we must feel free to choose from all possibilities.
When we are afraid
or feel unsafe, we may find only one way is right.
When we know we are
able to choose a better way, we feel happy and free.
When we are
threatened or demanded to only be one way, we may feel limited.
Conscious
parenting requires us to show our children how to make healthy decisions.
Conscious parenting
invites us to relook at what we really want for our children.
Conscious parenting
asks that we observe what works for each child.
Conscious parenting
shows us that we make mistakes which we can correct.
There
are many ways to parent.
There are many
differences in children.
There are
opportunities to learn about a variety of parenting styles.
For each parent and
child there may be many different good choices.
To
generate trust, we must be trustworthy.
To teach children to
be honest, parents must be honest.
To teach children to
be happy, parents must be happy.
To teach children to
be healthy, the parents must be healthy.
Children
pay attention and copy their elders.
Children play “make
believe” to try out different ways to live and work.
Children learn how
to be loving and kind or fearful and unkind from the adults in their world.
Children speak as
they are spoken to by the adult guides.
We
each owe the next generation our very best behavior, respectful words and
positive thinking.
We are teaching them
when they feel rewards and disciplined, love and punished.
They are listening
to our conversations with others and with one another.
They usually trust
that if we are their parents, we must be doing things correctly.
Let
us give them better examples of language, relationship, handling money and
work.
Be the role model
you really want for the children and people in your life.
I expect us all to
demonstrate our best behavior with those we encounter, especially our kids.
Loving
every child and seeing in them unlimited potential,
Betty Lue
From
Dr. Wayne Dyer
WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN
ANYTHING FOR YOUR CHILDREN?
•
Value Themselves
• Be Risk
Takers
• Self-Reliance
• Freedom from
Stress and Anxiety
• Have Peaceful
Lives
• Celebrate
Present Moments
• Experience a
Lifetime of Wellness
• Creativity
• Fulfill Their
Higher Needs
• Feel A Sense
of Purpose
YOU
must Demonstrate / Model:
•
The ability to enjoy life.
• Be a positive example.
• Clarify what you know and
how you feel.
• Be expressive (Feel–Want–Willing)
Average children do things right.
No limit children do
the right thing.
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR BUILDING
SELF-ESTEEM IN YOUR CHILDREN
1. You must model
self-respect.
2. Treat each child as a unique
individual.
3. A child is not his
actions.
4. Provide opportunities to
be responsible and make decisions.
5. Teach enjoyment of life
each day.
6. Provide praise rather
than criticism.
7 We become what we
think about. Our thinking determines our self-image.
TO RAISE A CHILD’S SELF-PORTRAIT (SELF-IMAGE)
1. Encourage children to be
risk-takers rather than always taking the safe road.
2. Discourage children from
all self put downs.
3. Reduce emphasis on
external measures of success.
4. Work at reducing whining
and complaining behavior.
5. Encourage excitement
about everything in life.
6. Encourage children to
choose independence rather than dependence.
7. Teach children to be
non-judgmental.
8. Encourage children to be
honest with themselves.
9. Be aware in the
importance of appearance to young people.
10. Encourage healthy thinking.
11. Catch children doing something
right. Remind them of how terrific they are.
12. Treat children as total and
complete, now.
13. Hold them, touch them, kiss them.
14. Listen carefully to your children.
15. Give them opportunities to be
unique.
16 Encourage their friends to
“hang out” at your home.
17. Read aloud with them at all ages.
18.
Be involved in their age-related activities.