[AD. This is a contributed post.] Moral values are essentially practices and habits we inhibit in our daily lives that aim to benefit or shape society. For the most part, moral values define what’s right from wrong and defines what’s acceptable in society.
At a young age, children will be picking up the art of understanding moral values and exploring them in daily life. As parents, we should aim to facilitate this and look at methods to explore different moral values. In this guide from a private school in Surrey we take a look at the ways to explore moral values with your child.
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Moral values.
Use personal experiences
The part of using moral values is by relating it to a moment in your own life and showing that experience to your child. Kids love to hear stories, so use this to your advantage when building their understanding of key values - like compassion, kindness and being candid. Showing positive experiences means that your child could likely follow the advice you gave them to shape their future actions.
Communicate with your child effectively
Minimal conversation with your child can bring a lot of woe and upset, and a child that will go and experiment in their own ways that could be problematic. Converse regularly with your child to find what they enjoy and what aspects of their life are shaped by their own moral compass. Ask them plenty of open-ended questions, and show that you’re listening.
Monitor what media your child takes in
From playing games, to watching TV and films and reading books. These days there are multiple ways to absorb media and it can really change a child’s perspective. Be sure to keep an eye on what your child’s watching, reading and exploring and make sure they instil positive moral values. Thankfully a lot of child-friendly material has clear aims to nurture an understanding of moral values and defines what’s good and what’s evil.
This is such a interesting post. I don’t have children but if I did, I defiantly take what you share in this blogpost into account and make sure I’m doing these things. Thank you so much for sharing lovely Xo
Elle - ellegracedeveson.com
Great post and useful tips for nurturing a child. It's so important.
Effective communication can be difficult but it's about listening and making time to understand what's going with your little one.
This is a lovely post. I’m the oldest of several children and I understand the importance of having effective communication skills. For children it’s so much better to start earlier!
Great post and fab tips! I always hope that I'll be able to teach my children good values and morals,
Amy x
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Thanks so much for this! I have been trying to figure out how to approach this with Leo as he gets older!
Corinne x
The social media generation terrifies me a little bit, even though we rely on it for so much! It's gonna be so hard to navigate xx
You know I've touched on how our kids take to social media (and media in general) as they get older many times before but it's so true, it's going to form such a massive part of how they grow up and we need to be on top of it.
I'd much rather have the mentality of communicating openly about morals and values and helping them establish a basic level of kindness and helping them along the way!
This is so helpful to many Mum's reading this! x
Lucy | http://www.lucymary.co.uk
Drawing from personal experiences definitely help exploring values x
Leading by example is key, I think. That and explaining why something is not right or off limits rather than just forbidding it. x
This is such an interesting topic. I learnt best from my parents when they were leading by example. They would often tell me stories of things they had done and so when I went to do something similar, that story would spring to mind and I'd decide if I really wanted to go through it.
Interesting read! I don’t have children as you know but teaching them moral values is so important and something I’d definitely put a lot of care and time into if and when I do have them!
Oooh this is so interesting! I have bookmarked this post so when I do have kids I can look into this!
It's definitely a rocky road I'm going to need to learn to navigate