Character Education For Kids is Very Important – Moral Education For Modern Day Children
Posted by admin in Moral Education on July 4, 2011
Why Character Education for kids is so Important?
There has been a shortage of character education in schools and this is becoming more evident from the increase in the crime rate and violent incidents taking place all over the world. Studies those have been made in different countries and the subsequent research done by experts and NGOs go on to show that there is a dramatic “moral decline” in the western world including America and Western Europe as well as Australia.
Much of these destructive trends are a direct result of the modern day social ideologies and thought processes that perpetuate self-indulgence and gratification of ones own being. Modern day thought processes deeply believe in the statistical data and is therefore obsessed with the massive growth in the mass media, the online world and the social networking sites like Face book, Orkut, Twitter etc. Modern day kids often try and look for solving their problems on the net which results in utmost confusion and wrongful decision making by them. Read the rest of this entry »
Parents and Their Influence
Posted by admin in Parents And Kids on June 15, 2011
Family is the first to shape your character because we learn fastest by imitating others. We all mimic some influential figures in our lives (at least until we realize that there is someone better to imitate – Jesus Christ, the Son of God- and until we realize it is a charm in itself to be unique and not a copy). However, we can’t deny it, we imitate what we admire. Therefore as children we imitate the parents and the parents imitate their progenitors who in turn have imitated their forefathers and so on. However, this process doesn’t stop at reproducing what we admired in our forefathers, it also perpetuates the bad attitudes as well and many times parents don’t even realize how crooked their own pattern was, pattern that their children are born into.
Let’s see how the parental model can bring into a child’s life less wanted things and a twisted image of God. As mentioned earlier, kids see God as shown by the authority figure in their lives. This is where the father plays a very important role in modeling his child’s image of God. Here are 10 parental models as presented by Peter Horrobin in his teachings:
The parental model: (distant) A possible conviction of the child as a result: I am not important, I am insignificant. A possible attitude towards God as a result: God cannot care about me. Read the rest of this entry »