Category: Character

Teach Your Child Self-Respect

October 30th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Self-respect can be explained as knowing that you are valuable and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Self-respect leads to having positive self-esteem, which ultimately controls our success, happiness and how well we will develop emotionally throughout our journey. Although you can take this in a totally different negative direction if you have too [...]

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Teach Your Child to Respect their Pets

October 30th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Animals and humans share our space on Earth and sometimes even share our homes. And just like children, our pets depend on us for their every need. Therefore it is important children understand the importance of treating all living things with the respect they deserve, especially those we share our space with; our pets.
Preschool
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Teach Your Child How to Organize

October 30th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Organization can be the one of the largest contributing factors to your child’s success or to your child’s failing grades in school. There is more than just one benefit children will receive from learning to be organized. Think of all the time they’ll save not looking for their things, the less work you’ll have to [...]

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Teach Your Child How to Resolve Conflicts

October 30th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Conflicts are a part of our everyday lives, whether with family members who don’t agree with something we are doing or friends who don’t agree with other people we are hanging out with. With every decision we make in life there is a pro and a con to either way we go and there will [...]

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Teach Your Child to Respect Others

October 30th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Respect is the number one complaint from parents today, the number one issue. Every parent wants their children to respect them and for good reason. Parents don’t create a child’s life, care for them, raise them, train them and love them unconditionally to not receive respect. Since the beginning of time respect has been at [...]

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Teach Your Child to Do the Right Thing

August 23rd, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

As our children get older little by little they become less and less dependent on their parents. As they get more independent they spend more hours outside of their home environment; including school, extra curricular activities, spending time with their friends, etc. While we hope we have taught our children to do the right thing when [...]

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Teach Your Child to Be a Good Sport

August 23rd, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Sportsmanship is defined as “conduct and attitude considered as befitting participants in sports, especially fair play, courtesy, striving spirit, and grace in losing”. As many of us have seen from newscasts around the world, there are sadly some parents who display poor sportsmanship.
Most children have a desire to win; regardless of whom they are playing [...]

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Teach Your Child How to Make Good Choices

August 21st, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

As children grow so do the number of choices they have to make. The choices will begin just as soon as they start school and will continue to grow in complexity as your child matures. What does it take to make a choice? Making a choice takes a balance of self-confidence and the mental ability to [...]

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Teach Your Child To Pray

August 20th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

Religion is a large part of society; nearly 85% of families practice some type of religion in the world. The core principle for more then 90% of those religions is prayer. When you raise your child in a particular religion, sure they duplicate the way you and other family members pray but do they know [...]

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Teach Your Child How to Deal with Peer Pressure

August 18th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

If we could hide our children away from the world from the age of 12-18 we wouldn’t have to worry a bit about peer pressure, but the truth of the matter is we do. It is a major issue in a pre-teen and teenagers life, in fact nearly 66% of teens that abuse drugs and [...]

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