When a Mother gives birth to a child, she has a dream. How can she keep it alive?
When a Mother gives birth to a child, she brings her hopes and dreams to life.
She hopes her child will grow up and be successful. She wants this tiny person to make the world a better place.
Never does a Mother hope that her child will grow up and live on public assistance, or in a jail or prison!
Yes, every Mother wants the best for her child–that (s)he will support him or herself in a career that (s)he enjoys, that (s)he helps the community instead of blighting it. But too many parents fail to lead their children down the path to success.
How can a parent guide a child to the right path, the path to success? A parent can impart certain values and skills to a child.
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Hard Work
All children need to learn the value of hard work.
You can teach a child the value of hard work by requiring the child to do chores or earn money when (s)he can. If a child never has to work for anything, (s)he or she grows up with the expectation that others will care for him or her throughout his or her life. This is the expectation that leads a child to depend on welfare or taxpayers’ money for the rest of his or her life.
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Commitment
When a child makes a commitment to do something, especially if it is for someone else, a parent needs to require the child to follow through.
For example, suppose you allow your child to not follow through with commitments to do a job for a neighbor. Your child has learned that (s)he does not have to do what others expect him or her to do. If your child learns this, (s)he may not show up to work as an adult and may end up unemployed or on welfare.
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Honesty
Every crime starts with dishonesty. The best prevention for criminal activity is simply teaching children to be honest.
Here are some ways you can teach your child to be honest.
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Good decision-making skills
Additionally, children must learn to make good decisions.
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Problem-solving skills
They also need to learn they can solve problems for themselves, and that there are no easy answers.
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I am a taxpayer and would prefer to keep people out of our welfare and prison systems. Grooming a child to be a welfare recipient or a prison inmate at someone else’s expense seems wrong to me.
Parents, please keep the dreams you had for your child at birth alive! Please raise your child with good values, good skills, and high expectations for a successful life.
Enable every child to make the world a better place!
Let the encouraging words in these near a river posts help you
soar like an eagle above life’s storms.
