1.Practise religion and belief in God.
We will be doing a great harm to our kids if we're practising our various religions and not encouraging our offsprings to participate actively in the doctrines for them to become a God fearing adults.
2.Stand up for themselves
Statistics have shown that 1 in every 6 children is bullied on a regular basis . Children need to be taught the values of life and have firm believe in themselves so that they don't fall into the pressure of peers or bullying . This also entails teaching them to talk to their parents about any pressure or bully they face and also respecting others values and beliefs.
3.Think Critically
Giving children the opportunity to think critically about decisions they are about to take makes them take better decisions later in life. Parents should allow children come up with some answers whether in school work or choices of wants.
4.How to be Independent
A large per cent of grown adults these days can hardly perform some simple home chores or basic things in life.
Ignorance or never being taught is listed as the second top reason for this. Parents should include their kids in their daily activities.By getting involved they learn lots of skills from their parents and therefore live independently when they are on their own.
5.Value of money and time
Getting children involved in the act of saving money and not wasting time is very important because this habit will form an integral part of their lives in future.
6.Build relationships and respect
Children should be able to learn the importance of building relationships from their parents. Maintaining a good relationship with people around and families matters alot.Remembering important dates such as wedding anniversary,birthday etc.Exchanging greetings and wishing people well,saying "thank you",helping people,
reassure children that mistakes are good not bad are some the personal development every individual needs . Children learn all these when they see their parents doing all these acts.
7.Readers are leaders
Great leaders are readers.It doesn't matter the child's age lot and lots of books should be introduced to children.Parents should get lots of books for children according to each child's age ranging from pictorials, spellings, story books e.t.c to read.