Knowing how to teach children about morals and achieve desirable results starts with you. Do you adhere to a set of moral values? How consistently do you act in accordance with those moral values? You will never successfully teach children about morality if their personal behavior is not in accordance with your teaching.
So, to begin with, sit in front of a mirror and objectively assess your own behavior. If you want to teach children about honesty, determine how honest you are. If you want to teach kids about morals, like respect and integrity, check your own levels of those traits. Be ruthless.
The process
Knowing how to teach morals to children and obtain desirable results involves a familiar process. We can sum up that family with this quote: “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of achievement.” (Zig Ziglar)
Think of “Repeat” as the family last name and the next three as given names.
- Repetition, the mother of learning
- Repetition, the father of action
- Repetition, the architect of realization
The three Repetitions help those who seek to know how to teach morals to children.
“But I hate repetitive tasks!” you say.
You hate repetitive tasks, but you probably love achievements. You are reading this article because you want children to learn and practice morality, not simply to be exposed to morality.
The mother of learning
Let me introduce you to Repetition, the Mother of Learning. She is a kind and wise entity. She knows that a child can only learn by listening to the lesson over and over again. She knows that the 4-year-old who wants to learn about baseball needs to know about the game. So, line after line after line, she reads to that boy about throwing a ball, catching a ball, hitting a ball, and so on. Soon, the boy knows everything so well that she can repeat it word for word. The boy has learned about baseball through repetition.
TIP: To teach children about moral values, we need to repeat definitions, stories, songs, and explanations until the children have memorized them.
the father of action
Repetition, the Father of Action, is married to Repetition, the Mother of Learning. Once she has taught with repetition of words, the Father of Action enters the scene. He goes beyond words. He knows that a 4-year-old who wants to play baseball needs more than mother’s words. Then, over and over again, the Action Parent helps the child repeat the basic motions of throwing, catching, and hitting a ball. He helps the child apply the memorized words in repeated exercises until acting out baseball becomes natural and fluid.
TIP: To teach children about moral values, we should repeat the guided use of each character trait until the children begin to exercise those values without help.
The architect of achievement
Now meet the third member of the family: Repetition, Architect of Realization. An architect designs and guides a plan or project. Grandfather Architect uses the solid work done by Mother of Learning and Father of Action to design and guide children’s construction of moral values. True to the family name, use repetition. Help children pay attention to details so they can work out the flaws in their understanding and practice of moral values. It provides models of the finished character build they are working on. He injects enthusiasm and spirit into the process as the results begin to show!
TIP: To teach children about moral values, we need to repeatedly draw attention to faulty understanding and actions, inject enthusiasm and even rewards repeatedly until children consistently exercise the desired moral values.
conclusion
Repetition is the answer to teaching moral values to children. “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of achievement.”
Repetition of character trait definitions, character in action, and energetic encouragement will yield positive results!