Children not only copy what they see, they also need to feel part of society and know what happens to less fortunate people.
One of the values that any parent wants to instill in their children is solidarity. Children act on what they see, which means that the best instructors are those who live with them on a daily basis. Next, and given the international day of solidarity, we are going to highlight practical ways in which children can be taught to be supportive.
Educate in values
Values, such as solidarity, are expressed in many ways in everyday life: with Christmas campaigns, in NGOs, with neighbors who go through a difficult economic or emotional situation, family members sick… If the child sees how the parents help, and they help each other, cooperate together in different activities and agree on everyday aspects, it will be easier for them to recognize the right thing and do it too. The child can be told stories of people who go through a bad situation, talk about people who practice begging, of people who are left homeless due to injustices ... Surely he will be the one who is interested and wants to know more.
Not only helping at home, children can detect who are supportive, how to participate in campaigns to help children with fewer possibilities, families without resources ... Helping friends, or relatives when they need it, will be points that they will take into account, that with the days they will see habitual and correct. Values like solidarity are not taught with a book in hand, they are explained, they are exercised daily to make a dent in the children and convince them. That is to keep him in reality and make him participate, even make him important in certain decisions considered more adult.
Being supportive children
The involvement of the parents focuses on letting the child know that the great reward of acting for the benefit of others, in being in solidarity, is the subsequent feeling.
The first teachers are the parents. They should foster in children feelings of compassion, help, empathy, generosity, solidarity, forgiveness… The little ones live in a social environment, and from a very young age they must understand that they are part of a community, of various circles that are growing larger. The child is at home with his parents, at school or kindergarten and in the complex of society. He is not an isolated individual, with which he must know how to live, and with it, feel for others and think of others.
The involvement of the parents focuses on letting the child know that the great reward of acting for the benefit of others, in being in solidarity, is the subsequent feeling. Helping brings happiness, and seeing how someone else wins for your collaboration is a prize. You can explain to them that their help is needed both at home and at home, and talk about these issues seriously and openly. The Parents They may need their collaboration, classmates may not understand something or want a toy, and they have the opportunity to reciprocate with a gesture of solidarity. This gesture will be returned to them in due course.