8 good habits parents should practice for their children

Practicing calligraphy, cleaning one's room, keeping a diary, and caring about one's younger brother or sister's birthday are good habits that parents should encourage in their children.

Clean up

Parents should create for their children the habit of decorating and cleaning their own bedrooms because the habit of keeping the house tidy will gradually become a habit of being tidy in their thinking and working style in their later life.

The ancients had a saying, “Handwriting reflects a person’s character,” to emphasize that handwriting reflects the writer’s personality. When children go to school and write beautifully, coherently, and clearly, their parents will also feel more secure – because they are developing good qualities such as carefulness, perseverance, and orderliness, starting from the first letters.

Beautiful handwriting is a good habit to practice in children.

Gratitude Writing Exercise

American media queen Oprah Winfrey, legendary entrepreneur and motivational speaker Tony Robbin, and many other successful people around the world have acknowledged the power of gratitude—because gratitude brings happiness, even during difficult times.

Parents should let their children practice writing down 5 things they are grateful for every morning when they wake up. For example, 1. I am grateful that my mother woke up early to make me bread, 2. I am grateful that my father took me to school in the morning when it was hot and there was traffic, 3. I am grateful that my grandmother hugged me and told me fairy tales when I cried...

When you begin to practice gratitude for life, you slowly train your mind to always see the small miracles that are always present around you - your everyday happiness.

Birthday gift for my beloved brother

When the parents gave birth to a younger brother, the younger brother got to stay with his parents, while the older sister had to sleep alone. So sometimes the older sister was jealous of her younger brother and resentful towards her parents. The truth was that the older sister was lonely because she forgot to love her parents and her younger brother.

To increase the bond between families with young children, parents should teach their children to remember the birthdays of family members with beautifully decorated wall calendars and let them fold or create birthday gifts filled with their innocent feelings.

Meditate 5 minutes a day

Parents should practice meditation for 5 minutes every day, every morning when the air is fresh. Forget the spiritual element of meditation and always think that meditation is to stabilize the mind of the children and reduce stress in their studies.

In her autobiography, Indian CEO Indra Nooyi stated that meditation was the gift she and her sister gave their children when their life in America, although materially abundant, was very stressful.

Regular diary keeping habit

American universities have trained generations of writers by having them write daily journals throughout their course. Journaling helps writers sharpen their observation skills, collect many good ideas over time, and clarify their thoughts on paper.

Parents should apply this simple educational method - by letting children write a diary expressing their true feelings and thoughts every day, what they like to do, what they don't like to do and the mistakes they often make. When reading those lines, parents will understand their children better and develop their inherent potential.

And the habit of writing a diary, many years later, will be the foundation for them to communicate better, speak better and be more confident in forums.

Habit of greeting people

Teach your children to greet their neighbors and relatives politely because politeness is very important - to form good character and success in communication later. Moreover, it is a valuable traditional culture of Vietnamese people that needs to be preserved and kept for many generations.

Ask for help when needed

Another important skill that parents need to teach their children is to be able to ask for support from parents, teachers, relatives and people around them whenever they encounter difficulties or problems in life. This skill will help them protect themselves and their friends. At the same time, this skill also trains them to work in groups and support their groupmates later.

To give children good moral habits and life skills, parents should always be the ones to guide, protect and shelter them with love and silent daily observation.