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How to raise responsible kids

Team AckoFeb 8, 2024

Everybody will agree that the ultimate goal of any parent is to rear an independent and responsible kid. With the mechanical, monotonous life, you may not take time to focus on what your kid is doing right and often focus on what he is doing wrong instead. This means your kid gets far more parental attention for negative behavior than for the right one!

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Begin by seeing responsibility as something cheerful for your kid in place of burden. The present generation kids do not want to be doted on. Like matured adults, they too need to feel like they matter to the world. So, bring about a positive contribution. You just need to teach them that they have the power as a positive contributor.

Here are certain strategies that are guaranteed to help you raise responsible kids.

Model responsibility and accountability

Your kid is a close observer of your every move and action. So, be mindful and teach through your behaviors. Keep your promises to your kid and do not make excuses. Remember the famous proverb “As you sow, so shall you reap.”

Teach your kid to be polite in his interactions with others

When your child yells at his little sister, do not force him to apologize right away. Rather listen to his feelings that annoyed him to growl at his sister. If he is ready to apologize after he realizes his mistake or you make him realize it, encourage him to set things right again. Read to him stories where kids apologize for their wrong behaviors. This will make the little one realize it is necessary to say sorry when you do something wrong, and also that one doesn’t become less important or small by apologizing.

Support your child to pay for damaged goods

This is one of the ways to inculcate values in life. Your kid needs to be careful with others’ things. Help him to pay from his own allowance for losing his classmate’s book, or damaging his sibling’s toys.

Allot routines and structures

These are very significant in your kid’s life for many reasons. These give him repeated opportunities to manage himself through a series of tasks. Firstly, he masters the bedtime routine, cleaning up toys and getting ready to go to school in the mornings. Then he develops successful study habits and grooming habits. Ultimately, he learns basic life skills through repetition of household routines.

Stop simply dictating orders

Your goal is to keep your kid focused on his list every day until he begins to manage them on his own. So, instead of ordering him to brush his teeth, have breakfast soon, encourage him to do his daily activities cheerfully. He should never feel like you dictate his life. That would turn him into a rebel. Follow your routines religiously and your kid would learn to follow his own.

Help your kid to be a trouble-shooter

Provide your darling with a lot of exposure, which will strengthen him emotionally. Just be available for problem-solving, helping him work through his feelings and fears. Let him handle the problem himself, be it an apology or making amends to something.

Never ever brand your kid

Never discourage your kid with wounding nicknames. Teach him to be responsible and build a “Never give up’ attitude.

Grandma’s Tip: Never label your child as ‘’lazy’’ or ‘’shy.’’ This will bring his self-esteem down. When your kid is assigned a work, he should be encouraged to accomplish it. Say, ‘’You can do it, buddy,’’ instead of ‘’I don’t think you can do it!’’ Your small words of encouragement can actually boost your child’s morale.

Enable your kid to prepare a written schedule

From this stage onward, encourage your little one to maintain a written schedule that has a ‘’to-do list’’ for things to be done during the weekdays and the weekend as well. Tell him to jot down his schedule: The singing class or dancing class, a friend’s birthday party, roller-skating on Sunday mornings, his science project or math assignment, chilling and listening to music.

This will keep his stress level down and most importantly, it would teach him how to manage his time and be responsible for his commitments.

No blame game, please!

Blame is the opposite of unconditional love. So, nip it at the bud itself if your kid practices it. Sometimes, you may feel the guilt of practicing the blame game too. Next time you find yourself automatically blaming someone, stop and accept any responsibility of shouldering the situation. Remember you are leading by an example. You can always come up with better solutions from a state of acceptance than a state of the blame.

Encourage your kid say “Let me do it myself!”

In the beginning, it will always be more work for you. This is manageable as you are working with your kid to help him discover the satisfaction of his contribution. Give your child the feeling of an independent entity and this will prompt him to try things out by himself and take responsibilities. You can also segregate certain tasks among family members with your child watching. Then look at him and see how excited he would be to hear what task will be assigned to him. Next time onwards, you will see him say, ‘’Let me do this myself,’’ for a bunch of other things.

Expose your child to famous quotes and sayings

Studies have shown that people who take responsibility in any given situation are people who see themselves as willing to be different and stand out. Teach your kiddo that they not only have the right to be an individual, but they also have an obligation to be one. It is something Eleanor Roosevelt had said.

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