How To Teach Your Kids Moral Values

To teach your kids moral values is a very challenging task one parent could face.

And it is especially difficult today given the (im)morality or the so called "morals" of today's generation.  It is like your swimming or running against the current, as we can today that morality is really declining.  We need to teach our young children morality if we wanted them to become productive citizens and have a better future.

Here are some practical suggestions to teach your children the moral values they need to learn:

1.  Define moral or morality properly.

This is very basic and at the same time, very crucial since every person has his or her own definition of morality, and if we are not careful enough and have the wrong definition or view of morality, then we are heading towards the wrong direction or even worse.

2.  Consider the Bible as the best source of morality.

Since God is the highest and only source of morality and His infallible Word is given to us to guide us in the right path we should take if we wanted to live a holy or righteous life, then there is a need for us to continuously seek His will and guidance through the Bible.  It is like our roadmap to which we journey in this life.  "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light for my path." as written in Psalm 119:105.

3.  Live by example.

We always heard, and sometimes we ourselves say "Follow what I say, but don't follow what I do.", but we know that this should not be so.  We must always backed up the moral values that we teach our children with our own actions and behavior because actions speaks louder than words.  This is the most challenging part, I believe, of teaching our children the moral values they need to learn and prac

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The Importance of Child's Early Years

Motherhood is very important in the life of a child.  Winston Churchill said that we should not forget our greatest teacher - our mother.

The early years, which is the formative years of a child is very crucial time to teach and train him or her values that he or she would embrace in his or her entire lifetime.  And a mother plays a great part in molding these young minds of a child.

It is in his or her early life where he or she begins to acquire moral and spiritual values and principles which will give meaning to life.  Apart from that, there is no moral framework, no ultimate accountability - no reason to be honest, to be responsible, to be respectful.

It is important to emphasize that we lead our children, not drive them, towards the kind of person we want them to be.  Living by example is really by far the greatest teaching tool we could use at our disposal.

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