1. Teach your children, from the age of six, to work. Give them regular, meaningful, age appropriate, tasks. Serving others is inextricably a part of being in a family, and therefore, children should not be paid for their participation.
2. Instruct your children to greet adults, to stand when adults enter a room, to offer their seats to elders. Teach this, model it, and encourage it. Good manners, including the ability to say “please” and “thank you,” will serve children almost as well as receiving a good education. You, the parent, are where your children will learn almost everything about good (and poor) manners.
3. Teach your children about the value of money, about how it works, and how to save it. Show them how compound interest operates and how a small amount of money, wisely invested over a number of years, becomes a substantial sum.
4. Recognize and honor your children’s unique contributions to your family through giving awards and certificates when each child accomplishes established goals.
5. Regularly affirm your children’s qualities, and, as regularly, while looking into their eyes, use the words “I love you. I am proud of you. I love being your parent.”
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