What 5 things do you want to teach your children?

[staryeyed]

For me I think its important to teach my children (well child as I only have one DS at the moment) as much about life as possible. I feel that my parents didn't teach me

I will teach my children about:

1. Sex and relationships (I have never been given any sort of sex education and made very big mistakes).

2)how to cook for themselves and keep house so they can be as independent as possible.

3)values of friendship about real friends and how to sort them from the users.

4)the value of money and how to budget and live within their means.

5)how to solve problems; learning to accept things we cant change and change things we can.

What are your 5 things?

1.) that I will love them unconditionally until the day I die

2.) to stand up for what they want and for what they believe in

3.) to treat people how they would like to be treated

4.) good manners

5.) erm, will come back to that.

fingerwoman, I will go with all of yours and add resilience, the ability to pick themselves up and deal rationally with whatever life throws at them.

I will teach my daughter to be completely self sufficient and never depend on a man or make him the centre of her world.

I will teach both DS and DD that there does not need to be a boss in the home.

How to take care of themselves - budgeting, cooking and looking after their home.

I will make it clear that I am always available to discuss all subjects and will offer assistance no matter how 'shocking' the occurence.

That school and what happens there is not important but education is.

yes, good one saadia

1. That masturbation is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy (with apologies to Ben Franklin).

1. To clean up after himself, whether on a sitting room scale or a global scale.

1. That he can't have anything pierced until he's 16.

1. That going for long walks, going to museums and touring old churches is MUCH more fun than watching fillums or playing Space Invaders or whatever you young shavers do for fun these days.

1. Condoms. At all times.

I will teach my children the ability to make the right choices and not just to follow the crowd

Good manners

The importance of budgeting and living within their means

To question things they are told and read and to develop their own opinions and beliefs

Not to blame others for their mistakes

and a few of the others mentioned here

1. To appreciate art
2. To think
3. To listen
4. To ask questions
5. To laugh

I'm happy to start with
Not throwing food on the floor
Not chewing the remote control
Using a toilet
Not pinching and scratching
Sleeping through the night

Have I missed the point?

1. To follow their hearts but not too rigidly.

1. To treat everyone as you would want to be treated yourself.

1. To be happy.

1. To be confident.

1. To love themselves.

i hve 3 sons here are my ideas

1/that i will always love them and family is a united strength

2/a good career takes hard work-realise ambition whilst they are young

3/to make wise decision seeking advice,nd to learn from others mistakes

4/to show humility,empathy and understanding to all be nice to everyone you can be.

5/ be self sufficient and self reliant nothing is guarnteed and you cannot hope that someone else will take responsibility for you all your life,take contol of your own destiny

Ds is 2, so my current 5 things are:

me and dh love him without question

potty training

not drawing/painting/sticking on just any old surface - keep it on the paper!

manners (or at least no food throwing)

sharing is a good thing

1. to love and be loved
2. to use and appreciate their imaginations
3. to be happy in their own skins
4. to look after their money
5. to have seriously good fun

1. humility
2. empathy
3. self worth
4. love
5. ambition

1. That they will always be worth loving as is everyone in the world.

2. To ask questions and be interested in the world around them

3. To be polite and kind to others

4. To enjoy things they need to do - e.g. have fun in the bath, enjoy mealtimes, enjoy the walk to school etc

5. Creativity - i.e. push the boundaries no matter how big the risk of failing....

I only want to teach them to

1. know and respect themselves
2. get to know and respect others
3. know that they are respected and loved by us

Hopefully the rest will follow!

I want my darlings to know how
to swim,
look after themselves and each other,
laugh at themselves,
be joyful,
know nothing is forever.

To unicycle
British Sign Language
How to mend a bike puncture
Bread making
Willow weaving

that life is interesting
(it can't always be pleasant, it can't always be fun, but if you are prepared to be interested then life will deliver)

that people are interesting
(as above)

that you can always start again
(cue: the mad inventors' song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

not to let the sun go down on your wrath
(at least not in a family setting)

that you don't have believe things just because somebody says so

In fact, I'm not sure all of these are things I am teaching my children. Some of them are more what I have learnt from them.

1. To love your neighbour as yourself.
2. How to be independent.
3. Earning money is not everything in life.
4. There is more to life than doing well at school, although good results are useful.
5. To believe in himself.