As a drop of water can shape a rock by falling on it everyday, so to education shape the personality of a child over time. Therefore, in the education of the child, parents, educators and teachers must provide correct, sufficient, and positive warnings and messages for children.
The first school for children, whose souls are as bright as mirrors and as quick to record as cameras, are their homes. Their first educators are their mothers. Parents must always be good models for their children, acting in commendable ways. Since imitation is one of the earliest learning techniques; parents should remember to behave in a way that they want their children to behave.
The human learning process begins with birth. The person who starts to understand his body, environment, and the world in the first stage enhances his skills by practicing them within the limits of the capabilities that are given to him. With the help of the senses, such as “hearing,” “seeing,” “touching,” and “smelling” the amount of knowledge proliferates rapidly. Every warning and message that reaches us is an important factor in helping learning, developing consciousness, and becoming aware of life. It must be kept in mind that the fastest growing system in a child’s body during the first three years of life is the nervous system.
Helping each other, forgiveness, responsibility, hard-work, empathy, and correct behavior are qualities that parents should demonstrate. Fighting, noise, and angry words will negatively affect the development. Displaying correct behavior is more effective than explaining what correct behavior is.
Children need the parents’ interest, love, conversation, and physical closeness. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
Besides, the children’s group of friends is another environment that needs to be monitored carefully. Having the right friends positively affects the development of the personality of the child, while having inappropriate friends will have negative effects. Many parents cannot attain positive results, despite all their efforts in education, merely because they have forgotten the importance of the peer group on the child.
Moreover, in child education, especially in the early stages, parents must be very careful to combat the inappropriate stimuli of the television and computer. We can see violence, fear, and a lack of human values in our children. It is known that in cases where children spend much time watching television these children fail to develop their linguistic skills and become withdrawn from society.
If nations cannot raise perfect generations to whom they can entrust their future, their future is dark indeed. If parents encourage their children to develop their abilities and be useful to themselves and the community, they have given the nation a strong new pillar. If, on the contrary, they do not cultivate their children's human feelings, they will have released scorpions into the community. Those, who bring children into this world are responsible for raising them, have pity and save the helpless innocents. Do not let their lives go to waste.
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