This months Growing Champions for Life Winner’s Connections article, by David Benzel, is about strategies for teaching life lessons to your child.  The goal for using these strategies is to get your child thinking about what works in life, and to consider their own choices as a pathway to learning to make better ones. Click Here to read more

The 5 Strategies:

  1. Walk the Talk – The most obvious of all, yet often neglected approach is to demonstrate the skill with our own behavior…to teach by example.
  2. Catch Them Doing it Right – Be the observer and “noticer” of admirable behavior by your child and comment on the significance and benefits of it.
  3. Look Out the Window for the Good – Watch for examples of credible behavior in people outside your family and ask your child, “What do you admire about what we just witnessed?”
  4. Look Out the Window for the Not-So-Good – Watch for examples of questionable behavior in people outside your family and ask your child, “What choices might have worked better in that situation?”
  5. Ask Yourself Wonder-FULL Questions – Instead of thinking, “Why is my child so undisciplined?”, or “…so lazy?” ask yourself a question like, “I wonder how I can help my child discover the benefits of self-discipline?” or, “I wonder how I can teach my child to enjoy hard work?”

 

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