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Title: 7 Effective Ways To Help Your Child Learn Manners


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7 Ways To Teach Your Child Good Manners
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  • How your child behaves is a reflection of the
    way he or she has been brought up. Parents play
    the main role in inculcating good manners in
    children followed by the teachers and others
    around. Nowadays most parents find it difficult
    to deal with their kids and are not sure about
    how to develop good behavior in them. Here are a
    few tried and tested ways in which you can make
    your child behave properly.

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1. Be The Role Model
  • When you want your child to follow certain
    manners, be sure to practice this yourself.
    Children, right from a very early age, show an
    inclination towards imitating their parents. So
    if you are well-behaved chances are that your
    child will be too. Some basic rules to follow
    would be-
  • Do not use bad language.
  • Do not talk foul about others.
  • Follow good food habits and eat plenty of fruits
    and vegetables.
  • Do not give in to mood swings.
  • Do not shout at your kids or anyone else.
  • Follow good habits of cleanliness.
  • Behave properly with elders so that your child
    can emulate your behaviour.
  • Exercise regularly so that your child also does
    so and keeps fit. Studies have shown that
    physically fit children are happy kids and rarely
    throw tantrums.
  • Follow good table manners.
  • Be tidy and keep your house and surroundings
    clean.

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2. Get Support
  • Sometimes it has been seen that people around the
    child have a deeper impact on them than their
    parents. This is especially so in the pre-teen
    age group. Discuss your childs behavior with his
    or her teacher or grandparents, neighbours, etc.
    Ask your childs grandparents to talk to him or
    her about good manners and reprimand mildly when
    they do not follow. When my daughter visits my
    sister and her family, she returns home better
    behaved than before. It is not that my sister
    teaches her anything different than what I do at
    home but a different messenger can have a greater
    impact than the same one who the child has to
    listen to all the time.

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3. Always Be Positive
  • Threatening your child with dire consequences
    will not instill good manners in him or her. In
    fact this sends out a wrong message that learning
    manners can be terrifying. Instead make the
    process enjoyable with lots of laughs thrown in.
    Use affirmative language while speaking to them.
    Replace foolish with not clever or boring
    with not fun and so on. When they demand things
    in an impolite manner teach them how the same
    demand can be replaced by a request and can be a
    lot more effective in getting them what they
    want. Many kids shout out their wishes in the
    hope that shouting will be more affirmative. For
    example when they want a particular object they
    may say You have to give me a new video game or
    I will not study. Yes, children do use threats
    and parents have to thank themselves for this
    because this is what we teach them. If you dont
    study, you will not watch television or you
    will get a new cycle if you behave properly.
    This sends out a message that the child needs to
    behave well only for a short period of time until
    the wish is fulfilled. Teach them to rephrase
    their wishes and voice them out like request. The
    wish for a new video game can be rephrased and
    said politely as Please can I have the new video
    game after my exams are over? But they should
    also be taught that they cannot have everything
    that they ask for even if they request politely.
    You can explain to them the reason why you think
    that their wish cannot be adhered to instead of a
    big No which will make them more rebellious.

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4. Be Like Them
  • When your child is whiny or speaks rudely,
    imitate them with a smile on your face. Even
    aping their facial expression works here. You
    will find that instead of being strict and
    reprimanding them at all times, being silly also
    works at times. Kids can hear what they sound
    like and feel silly about their behaviour.
    Chances are they will stop repeating the tantrum.
    Just be careful that you do not cross the
    borderline here. You are still the parent.

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5. Role Playing Works
  • Role play situations with your child and make it
    fun. Pretend that both of you are at a store and
    show your child when to say Thank you or
    Excuse me. Also demonstrate how to wait
    patiently for your turn. You could act out a
    situation where a visitor comes to your house and
    is met by your child at the door. Or when you are
    visiting somebody and the proper things to say.
    Sometimes children misbehave because they are not
    sure of the right things to say in a situation.
    Learning through role play will be fun and more
    impressionable.

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6. Eat Meals Together
  • It is a good practice to eat meals together as
    one unit. This may be possible only for dinner
    and when your child does not need to be fed. This
    is the best place to practice the right
    etiquettes such as how to ask for something that
    is away from you, how to chew your food properly,
    how to eat slowly as well as ensure that your
    child eats a little bit of everything that is
    laid out on the table. Encourage the child to eat
    a variety of vegetables in small bites. Also
    discourage overeating and talking with the mouth
    full. Although it is recommended that you do not
    give in to your childs food tantrums by giving
    him or her only junk food, dont be very stern
    about what he or she eats unless you feel its
    not healthy. If you feel that he or she is
    rejecting a particular food often, then withdraw
    the item for a period of time.

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7. Ask Them For Ideas
  • We adults tend to impose our ideas on our kids
    too often. We feel we know best what is right and
    advice them accordingly. Just like we do not like
    lectures, our children also get immune to the
    lecturing after sometime. They stop listening.
    This is a deplorable situation and should not
    occur. The best alternative would be to ask for
    their ideas. When they have behaved improperly,
    ask them how their behaviour could have been
    different. When you see another child behaving
    improperly, ask your child what is wrong in the
    situation and you will be surprised how mature
    his or her understanding is. Sometimes it is
    necessary to treat your child like an equal. Get
    their whole-hearted participation and let them
    find out how to behave well.

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  • Good manners need to be inculcated and not
    imposed on children. Following good manners
    should come naturally and should not seem to be
    affectations. Behaving well and following good
    manners yourself will foster these in the
    children too. Being more of a friend instead of a
    stern disciplinarian works better in most
    situations. However, giving in to your childs
    tantrums is not a good idea. Be firm without
    sounding repetitive in your quest to instill good
    manners. Make learning of good manners fun with
    role playing and imitation so that the child
    learns the folly of his or her ways. One last
    word, do not expect your child to behave like an
    adult. Kids will be kids and expecting mature
    behaviour will spoil the fun of growing up.

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