How Teaching Family Values Gives Your Child an Inner Compass

Teaching family values creates a foundation which allows your children to make healthy choices on their own. The values you espouse become your child's moral guide and form the cornerstone of his conscience.

What sort of values do you teach? In my family, we talk about the importance of honesty, integrity, forgiveness, generosity, caring, conservation, respect for the earth and other forms of life.

Although such values are expressions of a mature adult who has realized her responsibility to life and her place in it, I believe that children have the integrity to operate from these values. Despite my firm intention to use every opportunity to model or discuss important values, I am tickled when I witness my children making such life-affirming choices on their own.

Although making healthy choices is a development of consciousness, I see my children choosing generosity over selfishness, forgiveness over blame and integrity over pettiness all the time.

Of course teaching family values requires that you become an exemplary role model. If you're not acting from the values you espouse, then your children will learn that hypocriscy is acceptable.

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