Giving Your Child Somebody to Look Up To
January 14th, 2006 (Parenting)
Children need and want positive role models to look up to in their life. Knowing that their are people in the world that like the same thing that they do, and are accomplished, interesting, and committed, will fuel their optimism, desire, and persistence.
Below are 3 ways in which you can offer your children a full plate of role models to look up to
1. Gather resources that have stories of great accomplished men and women and fill your child’s setting with them. There are books, website, magazines, and newspapers that are filled with inspiring stories.
2. Go to the library or to the bookstore with your children. Together you can pick out magazines and newspapers that feature stories of successful men and women that interest your kids. Perhaps even subscribe to one or more for your child to receive.
3. Read biographies of people that have made a successful life of the same things that interest your child. Talk with them about it. You can also clip articles from the newspapers or start a scrapbook that features strong accomplished people that interest your child.