Promoting Kindness in Children – No act of Kindness is ever wasted
Teaching your kids what counts most is as necessary as teaching them how to count. Toddlers have an inborn capacity for compassion and kindness which is obvious when they naturally identify their emotions with stuffed animals, other kids, pets, and underdogs. The challenging part is that their empathy must compete with other developmental forces, which includes impulse control – which makes them pull the cat’s tail. Everyone has witnessed today worlds’ hatred and turmoil which alarms the priority to raise kids with utmost kindness.
Nurturing your child with kindness does not mean lectures or attending family sessions but that involves day to day life activities and routines. Be aware at all times that your kids are watching you and everything you do or talk matters. It begins from how to answer your child’s questions, how you handle a conflict in public or at home and how you nudge your kid’s growing comprehensive capacity about other people.
- Promote kindness by showing kids, how to be gentle.
- Remind your kid to speak softly and be warm and caring when your kid is in pain.
- Teach your kid that it is all about the tone in their voice
- Encourage your kid to be polite by saying words like ‘Thank you’ or ‘I am sorry’.
- Point out to your kids the good things that are happening and the good people who are helping others.
This makes your kids feel better about the world they live in and also gets them thinking creatively about ways they can make a difference.
Though you love and care about your kid, it is equally important to be firm on limits to help your toddler see that his/her behavior or misbehavior has consequences. If the be-nice rule is broken, stick with simple, concrete consequences such as a brief time-out or losing a special toy for a day. A toddler’s abstract thinking is weak, so they are too young to understand that being nice is morally the right thing to do; your efforts, therefore, should be directed at helping her resist impulses so they won’t get in trouble.
Assign Chores and raise your kids with helping nature. For a start, expect your toddler to help with your car wash, kitchen chores, setting dinner tables. This can be messy at the start but this helps you to raise your kid with loving and caring behavior. Teach teamwork and it is proven that kids with mindfulness and kindness tend to make healthier friendship than others.
Remember parenting is not about raising tough children to face a cruel and heartless world. So, always teach your kid to leave a glitter trail of kindness everywhere they go and they will be celebrated forever by their loved ones.
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