How to Teach your Children to be Positive

How to Teach your Children to be Positive

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From skin tightening commercials on social media ads, to a list of all the side effects from medications on television ads, it is hard to stay focused on the good things that will happen as you age sometimes. What do you want to do before you die? This question hit me like a ton of bricks this week. Personally, I want my future to be a strong, confident, positive person who gives back to others.

There are so many positive stories going on in the world too, but many times the news and media is flooded with the negative, depressing stories. I do not want to pass these stories on to my future children, I want to pass on the motivating, encouraging, positive stories or good times to look forward to in their future. One of the ways to do this is to start recording now, at least one positive thing that happens to me per week in a journal, on a slip of paper, or whatever I find. I may just be at a restaurant and see someone do something kind, and record this story on a napkin. The point is, someone needs to record it, and the important life message of hope that goes with it, because we all know the news will most likely not catch it.

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Where to Preserve Positive Stories to Pass on to Future Generations
It is so important to learn how to teach your children to be positive. Generations who pass on messages of hope, love, peace, endurance, optimism, etc give more than a family who passes on money to future generations. Money truly cannot buy everything.

A positive mind is a powerful mind, that can go far in life. Help build up and train your child to be positive and create memories to preserve forever, at the same time. Save all your photographs, crafts, and mementos from your positive lesson time with your children in a Baby Time Capsule to give to your child when he or she is grown years later to open. What a special day that will be for both of you, as you have your thankful family all gathered around your grown child, and he or she opens the time capsule to reflect on what has been taught and realizes all the positive stories you have all poured into his or her life story so far.

After being a social work counselor for many years, working with children, I know that a positive attitude and outlook on life, forms the foundation of the child’s world view, and impacts every part of their decision making. Being positive teaches us to be determined to finish tasks, encourages creative and resilient, shapes how we feel as leaders, and how well we work with others.
Ways to Teach your Child to be Positive

• Teach your child to not give up on homework or projects so easily. Their sense of accomplishment in the end is a major confidence booster.

• Teach your child to look for the positive or the strengths of someone else they may not get along with. Teach them self-confidence skills to face a bully.

• Teach your child how good he/she has it off in life, by building their compassion for the world through taking them places like the soup kitchen for the homeless.

• Teach your child the power of positive thinking, to help them feel more control over their environment and challenges in life.

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• Read stories to your child about being positive. These stories would be a great idea of an item to save in your Baby Time Capsule as a memory of how you helped influence and change their life through stories. Get your decorative Baby Time Capsule from https://www.timecapsule.com/product/babystimecapsule/

• Model to your child, by example yourself. Set up play time or craft time to create an opportunity to teach your child to give thanks. Ask your child to say or write down in a journal three things they are grateful for. This will help teach your child to turn the negative into positive in their future thinking as adults. A priceless lesson. Save this journal in their time capsule, so they can reflect on their answers again as adults, when they open their time capsule years later.

• Teach your child to smile more.

• Teach your child to also journal about positive experiences in his or her life, or record on video milestone moments in your child’s life when he or she accomplished a hard task or won an award.

• Pay attention to your children. Take time with them to play or do an activity that boosts their self-esteem and confidence in themselves.

• Practice positive reinforcements with your children. For more ideas about this, check out http://sg.theasianparent.com/positive-behavior-positive-reinforcement-a-happy-child/

You know you can learn a lot by sitting in on a preschool class and watching the teacher. A good preschool teacher knows how to be creative and teach your child to grow up positive. You as the parent and your home environment is the starting point for this skill for your child. For other ideas of activities to help your young children develop a positive attitude, check out http://www.momentsaday.com/10-activities-help-young-children-develop-a-positive-attitude/

So again I ask, what do you want to do before you die? We all have our own bucket lists, whether we have written them down or not. What is on your bucket list to make sure you teach your own children and leave as a legacy for them, in their own time capsule for future generations? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie

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