Teach Your Kids Acceptance With These Top Tips
We all want to raise accepting kids. It’s not right to express judgement or prejudice, and it’s important that kids know this. Babies are born without preconceptions, so the opinions they gain are solely by influence: from television, school and you.
It’s important for you to teach them correct values and make sure that they are accepting of others no matter race, gender, religion, disability or other. We are living in a society where everyone must be accepted. The following tips will help you to raise accepting kids that you’re proud of.
Show them
You know that your influence counts. If you act in a prejudiced way, your kids will think this is acceptable. If they see you accepting everyone, they will do the same. If you’re not sure how to do this, try embracing spirituality (that doesn’t necessarily mean speaking to psychics or reading tarot cards – but if this is something you want to explore, try this medium chat site). Spirituality teaches people to be open, honest and accepting, and better than you were the day before. Embracing spirituality will keep you on the right path and ensure that you are a good influence on your kids.
Read to them
All kids need to learn how to read. It helps with brain development and makes them learn quicker. However, reading books to kids can also help them to be more accepting of others – depending what you read, of course. Books with diverse characters and stories about kindness and acceptance will teach them to be this way themselves, even if they don’t know it. We are hugely influenced by words and even children’s stories can make us better people. Hearing different points of view and learning that we aren’t the only people with ideas keeps us grounded.
Use toys
Kids can also learn acceptance through the toys they play with. What kind of toys are you giving to your child? If you give your child toys that only look a certain way, they may not be as accepting as they should be. They will believe that this is how people look - diversify their toy collection. Think about the toys you provide for your child and play with them too. Giving a voice to different characters and showing them how to treat toys will show them how to treat people, too. If your child doesn’t look after their toys then they might need to learn a little more about accepting others.
Accept them
How will your kids learn to accept others if you don’t accept your kids? We love our kids unconditionally and want the best for them. But, for some people, accepting them for who they are can be difficult. We might have an idea of who we want our child to be and they could then turn out to be someone completely different. Don’t be that person. If you want your children to accept others, you must accept them for who they are. Your child is totally unique and that should be celebrated.