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There are MANY things that we should teach our children but I believe these 3 things you should be doing in front of your children are overlooked!
We have to set and example for our children and it needs to be a positive and realistic one. It’s not always easy to try and multitask tracking down a mobile baby when you’re trying to do the dishes but it DOES have long term effects.
Children learn by example and that is exactly what we need to do. BE THE BEST EXAMPLE POSSIBLE!
1. Daily Chores
I think we fall into the trap as mothers to spend ever waking moment with our littles. Everything else on our todo list falls to the way side. The laundry doesn’t get done. The emails don’t get responded to. Meals are no longer homemade. That stuff is important.
These are the activites of our daily lives and they have importance, otherwise we wouldn’t do them in the first place. We should be doing these in front of our children to remind them that not all necessary tasks are fun but things have to be done regardless.
Make this something that they can do with you as they get older.
2. Practice Self Love
We live in a hateful society. We also live in a time where people are wrong no matter what choice they do or do not make. That’s why practicing self love will not only benefit us as mothers (because we deserve it too!) but it will teach our children to have that same habit. Teaching your child to be kind to themselves isn’t something that you can just tell them to do. YOU HAVE TO SHOW THEM. Over and over and over again.
3. Work HARD
Whether you’re a stay at home mom or you have a career that you attend teaching your children how to work hard is IMPORTANT. Not only do the individuals now-a-days always seem to have a negative opinion…they also have no concept of working hard.
I feel pretty passionately about this topic because I wasn’t handed everything to me on a silver platter. My parents (even though they could help) taught us to be self sufficant individuals. They taught us the meaning of money and made us work so damn hard for the lives that we have today. THAT is why we are debt freaking free in a world where student loans, and fancy new cars are the “cool” and “norm”. NO FREAKING WAY!
Teach your children the importance of HUSTLE by showing how hard you HUSTLE. Teach them to dream bigger than ever and never settle for what everyone else is doing. By setting high standards for yourself, your children will learn that behavior too. Because they are exposed to it.
It’s so easy for us to complain and children really are sponges. We need to be the best example. Show children what failure is, and what it looks like when you find yourself failing. Teach them how to work hard and how to pick themselves back up again. Instill habits that allow them to become remarkable individuals and productive outrageously courageous in everything that they do. The opportunities for our children are endless but only if we open the door as mothers and show them how to view the world that way.
These are just 3 small things that you should be doing in front of your children every single day. Start small and then build from there.
