How To Share Your Strengths With Your Children
A great tool for raising well-balanced children is to share the stories of how you became you. No one admires you and soaks up your wisdom more than your kids. Letting them know that you too have fears and have failed at times on your way to being the most important person in their lives will allow them to deal more comfortably with their own fears and failures.
As we make our way through life, it’s the failures that ultimately mold us into who we are. Learning to overcome these adversities, growing from them and dealing with our fears underly the strengths we individually possess.
So, tell your kids how you were afraid to ride a bike at first, or ask a girl out on a date. By doing so, you are proving to your kids that indeed, these things can be done and that they are not alone in their fear and that in the end, they help you become a better person.
Discussion Points:
- Do you share your faults with your children or do you prefer them to see you as Superman?
- Is there any advantage in teaching your children about your failures?
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