The importance of being good role models to your own children in their lives! Translated…
Teaching in the elementary schools for a long time, I'd loved welcoming in the students, greeting them good morning, and also, to observe the interactions of the parents with their, young.
In the dawn's early morning light, some children were holding their parents' hands, walking on the sidewalk, the parents carried the children's backpacks, their lunches, the kids started chiming on incessantly, there's that, feel of, bliss; as they approached the school, they'd needed, one more, hug for each other, a kiss too, in the end, the parents, from a distance, unwillingly, watched their young, enter into school, until they can't see the children anymore, then they'd, turned and left.
And there were also parents who drove or rode their kids to school, dropped them off at the gates. Some parents parked their cars right on the front of the school, causing a huge traffic jam, maybe, they didn't want their young to walk too long. Some parents, were rushing, and ran the lights, or were riding the scooters without the helmets on, set a bad example for the children, and although the volunteer crossing guard parents or teachers advised them, they'd still done it the same, and we can, only ask the children to relay the messages for us, hoping the parents will, listen.
interaction from day to day, which will, socialize your own, children...photo from online
And surely, there are, many good parents, who'd, parked farther away from the school, to avoid causing a traffic jam. And seeing these parents who thought of more than themselves and their own young, I'd given them thumbs up in my mind
The school reinforced the children in their learning of life, and some parents would always wear that smile, greeting others, and their children behind them would do the exact same, the children would greet the volunteer parents and the instructors outside the schools on their, own; some parents are stricter, and only nodded to acknowledged the instructors when they see them.
Actually, education is everything in life, starting with the smallest matter. "Please, thank you, and I'm sorry!", aren't just words from the textbooks, but need to be reinforced in daily routines. The volunteers always told, "we don't want anything in return volunteering in the schools, but every time a student says thank you, that's, the best form of, feedback we can, get."
how learning to be "civilized" starts...at the home, with our own, elders...photo from online
The parents are the first teachers of the children's lives, also, a role model for the children for life. I hope that the parents can, pay heed, watch their behaviors, set a good example, to influence their young in positive ways.
So, this is on how the parents set the example of courtesy toward others, with the children, modeling after the parents' behaviors, and, even after the children started school, the parents' influences of the children is going to continue, because parents are the children's, very FIRST SET of teachers in their lives, and if you, as the parents, don't set a better example, then, no matter how high an education you put your children through, they still won't have the right kinds of virtues, and, you are your children's, role models!
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