Any parent would be quick to admit that parenting is a tricky business. I would say that most of us moms and dads generally do our best to perform the challenging tasks of parenting. And we quickly realize that parental training happens "on the job." We also commit to be good examples to our children as they enter this world, but often end up having a few "do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do" moments. How important it is for each of us parents to live our lives in a manner that our children can observe, respect, and even... follow.
Almost 150 years ago, Mormon prophet and renowned pioneer Brigham Young said: "We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate."
Ours is definitely the task to be fitting examples for our children. Such Christian virtues as integrity, charity, spirituality, accountability, civility, and fidelity are in a decline in our communities. However, how important it is for us parents to stand tall and firmly fixed in following and possessing these virtues so we can pass them on to our children.
H. David Burton once said: "Teaching virtuous traits begins in the home with parents who care and set the example. A good example encourages emulation; a poor example gives license to the children to disregard the parents' teachings and even expand the poor example. A hypocritical example destroys credibility." So we must ask ourselves: How will our children remember us?
Do we tell our children to be good sports, and then yell at the refs at our children's sporting events? Do we discourage swearing to our children, and then... swear at the driver that cut us off on the freeway?
By "walking the talk," and setting the kind of example that we would have our children imitate... we are better able to create... "Quality Living". -Doug
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Good and meaningful values that are established in childhood and held true as adults are the keys to preventing the many social, political, and business ills within our society.
ReplyDeleteTHE VALUE OF VALUES
Five-Time Author Teaches Us We Can Each Make a Difference – The Choice is Ours
The Value of Values educates us on how to establish a culture that will ensure harmony for generations to come and diminish the aggressive ways of the powerful…just by teaching our children values.
Did you know that an individual’s values are established in childhood and serve as filters when determining right from wrong throughout the person’s life? In today’s society, this process of establishing values within our children is given little concern. How are our children supposed to grow up to be adults with values if we’re not teaching them values from the beginning?
The responsibilities of parenting have become a reactionary process whereby each parent is doing whatever he or she must do in order to just get through life. By default, we are teaching our children that values such as integrity, respect for life, courage of conviction, purposefulness and generosity are secondary to making a living. In truth, there is absolutely nothing stopping us from being true to good and meaningful values except ourselves.
The Value of Values teaches us the required actions and reasons this important transition is needed. This book identifies what it will take from each of us to sustain the drive to pass our values onto our children.
Publisher’s Web site: www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheValueOfValues.html
ISBN: 978-1-60860-381-7 / SKU: 1608603814
About the Author:
Ed Gagnon is a vice president at a manufacturing company in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. The Value of Values is his fifth published book, and he has more in the works.
For media inquiries, appearances, or other publicity — please contact:
Ellen Green — PressManager@aegpublishinggroup.com
Christian values. If, everything & everyone operated around those 2 words, the change would be huge.
ReplyDeleteIt's really sad at times, to see the decay in society. But, I "set my mind and keep it set...".