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TIPS FROM TEACHERS

RUINING YOUR KIDS

Adults are quick to criticize today’s young people and sometimes with good reason. Most of

us have encountered a few rude, mouthed, lazy teenagers.

You will hear adults say that today’s children are lazy and don't want to work.

First of all, the statement is untrue. Some youngsters are industnous and quite willing to work. Some even enjoy it.

But no one should be surpnsed that some young people are lazy and don't want to work. After all, train them that way and they learn well.

From infancy. we give them everything they want. We satisfy their every craving or whim for food, drink and comfort. We supply them with spending money without ever requiring that they get out and earm their own. We pick up everything they leave lying @pound the house — books, shoes, clothing. We make sure they get to school on time in the morning. We let them come in at whatever hour they choose. And so on

The excuse we often use

“I don't want my children to have things as tough as | had them.”

Result — they grow up thinking the world owes them a living. And never

having taught the meaning of the word “NO”, if they are eventually arrested = for shophftng. stealing a car. or on a drug charge. or if they don't amount to much in life, they will have ditoned to society was

been con beheve that against them, that they were persecuted or that life handed them a raw deal

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grow older, are unable or unwilling to accept responsibility for anything. We must realize that we do not teach children how to take on responsiblity as long as we take on responsibilities for them.

And we don't help our children by always taking their part against the police,

their teachers and the neighbors — even if our natural inclination 1s to

believe that these people are all prejudiced against our children.

Children, even teenagers,

learn by example. A rude. disrespectful youngster, in many cases, learned

rudeness and disrespect at the feet of an adult who had htde respect for society's laws and conventions. And children are not born with prejudices, they learn them from adults. Unfortunately. “Don't do as 1 do, do as | say” is an unfair expectation that adults have of young people.

So after all the gob- bledygook from the child psychologists has been said,

raising children to become

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responsible, considerate adults may not be that complicated after all. In very general terms, and at the nsk of over-simplifying the task. here are a few hints which may help:

— Since children learn by example, give them = an example to follow

— Teach children the meaning of words or con- cepts like “yes and no” “rights and responsiblhilties” “rightand wrong”.

— Begin — assigning responsibilities to children at an early age.

— Children are looking for direction and guidance — give ittothem.

— Don't expect the school, the church, the police, the community to do

the job of raising your children for you. However, even having

done your best, you may still find yourself occasionally saying, in. frustration, “J cant do a thing with my Johnny.” On those oc- casions, you might have a kind thought for Johnny's teacher who has to cope with thirty little Johnnys every day.

(One of a series of articles on education in Canada Today produced by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation.)

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