9 Faces of child’s training (must read for all parents)
Yomi Adewale
9 Faces of child’s training
A child left on his own unattended to, living without direction and facing life issues unprepared will live a miserable life. Every child needs to be well trained, mentored and monitored in the journey of life in order to be the best, how well Parents have done will be shown in a large proportion through what the child turns out to be.
Where a child is not being trained at all or is raised haphazardly, the result will be poor, however, where a child is given the right training, the result will be amazing and obvious for all to see.
The following are the faces and the right dimension that training should take in the life of each Child
(1) Affection
An atmosphere of love helps a child to thrive and develop well, it convinces a child about his acceptability to his parents despite some flaws that the parents might be working on in the life of that child. Both parents and every member of the family are expected to display love for one another, it aids a good training process. Act of affection is provision for the need of your child,
(2) Vision
Parents must be deliberate in training their children and device the proper way to raise the child. Many parents embark on parenting journey without plans of what to do per time in helping the child grow to a responsible adult. Parents must develop a good vision that is not based on selfishness, carelessness, worldliness, or cluelessness.
(3) Attention
The price of spending time with your children it’s worth paying for, your child needs your support, encouragement, and friendship. You must pay the price of attending to your child’s physical, spiritual, emotional and educational needs. Attending to school’s call when there is Parents Teachers’ Meeting is good, paying attention to changes in your child and knowing your child’s friend and helping the child navigate through pressure and challenges can only happen when you are available.
(4) Communication
As Parents, you must spend time with your children through which you will get to know them well. You must encourage quality communication between yourself and each child. Learning and coming to the child’s level of comprehension is key for the training process. Having time to express your expectation, reward for obedience and consequence of disobedience and wrong decisions.
(5) Instruction
Parents should give an instruction that will give value, structure, and pattern to follow for the child. If you fail to do so, the child will get instruction from wrong sources and people, information your child gather every day needs your verification and validation,
(6) Correction
You must correct your child when there is hope before it’s too late. Never love your child too much that you are not able to correct where necessary. A good training must contain a blend of fairness and firmness, when a child is over pampered, his future is not secure, the ability to stand on his feet may not be in him. Learn to correct and be bold about it.
(7) Confrontation
There are instances where a serious issue and problem is identified in the life of a child, parents should confront the challenge and conquer it, then move on victoriously without hampering the life of the child in order not to forfeit the whole essence of training the child. Don’t shy away from the present issue that has a capacity of rubbishing your effort over the life of your child, confront the situate before it escalates.
(8) Contention
Opposing negative influence, bad friends and enemies of your children that want to destroy the life of your child are key to training a child well. Fight against social vices and excessive attention a child gives to destructive habits like too much love for food, addiction to lies, disobedience, games, porn, social media etc should be resisted seriously, it’s part of training strategy, never overlook such negative things, don’t say the child will outgrow it without addressing it, will not
(9) Protection
Your child must feel secure with you, sharing important information that you will not feel disappointed about, pouring out his fear and concern and you providing a way out for the child is part of training. You must protect your child from assault, abuse, low self-esteem, peer pressure, difficult task and all forms of attack, there must be conviction in your child that the home is safe.
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