Building Up of Character
After a talk last night, we discussed about today's youngsters. In my view, parents are reminded to pay attention to their kids, understand their kids, listen to their kids. These are all fine. But parents are rarely told how to build up the character of their kids. We have seen kids who know how to express themselves, but without self-control, emotion takes over and dictates the way they express themselves. Without a proper training in the family, we rarely see kids that have a sense of responsibility.
The building up of character is of utmost importance for today's kids and parents.
The building up of character is of utmost importance for today's kids and parents.
posted by Andy at 10/06/2006 05:08:00 PM
3 Comments:
Can't really remember where I read it from, but the nature-nurture debate about character development is totally out of the control of external intervention. It may help if we teach kids how to polish up some good traits, but most of it was built-in in the genetic composition. As a "lassez-faire" kind of mom, I usually just tell my kids when they have done something wrong, instead of telling them what's right. That explains why they keep bad-mouthing in public places making me look like a completely bad mom. :)
Well, I don't buy that character development is totally out of the control of external intervention, particularly parents'. I think youngsters have to have message from adults. They need some clear message and guidance as to what is right and what is wrong - sense of value. This is a bare minimum.
As a psychology major student, after studying developmental psychology, I am really confused about how to bring up a child. It is so difficult that you can easily find out ways to spoil the child, but not so easy to think of ways which do good to the child.
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