5 Things to Teach Children when they are Young

 5 Things to Teach Children when they are Young 

1. Entrepreneur skills 

This is important for two reasons:

1. If you are an entrepreneur yourself, then this is important. 

You need to teach your children some entrepreneurial skills. This is because they might be learning from you and would like to be entrepreneurs one day.  

Teach them entrepreneurial skills such as:

How to start a business?

How to maintain and grow a business?

How to promote/market a business?

How to get funding for a business?

Book keeping?

Investment and

Savings

The above are all great skills that your children will thank you for, even if they do not want to be entrepreneurs. 

Not everyone, wants to be an entrepreneur and so it's okay if they don't follow in your foot steps.

2. If you are not an entrepreneur, your children might need it of their personal growth or for when they'd decide to venture into business. 

2. Consent

Consent is very important. You need to teach your children to always ask for permission and be okay if people say no to them.

What I do is, I ask if I can hug them and so I lead by example. And I always ask them to ask for my consent before they hug me. 

Sometimes I say no them, even though I want to really hug them. This is to teach them that they need to be okay when someone says no to them because NO is a complete sentence.

3. Patience 

Patience is a virtue which most children don't have. They want things and they want them now. As parents we need to educate our children on the value of waiting and being patient.

We need to let them know that:

They need to wait, breathe in and out before they react when they are angr.y

They need wait patiently and not scream the roof down when they ask someone for help or need a service.

4. Financial Education 

At a young age, it is advised to teach your children about savings, investment and if it applies to you, educate them about taxation.

I talk to my children about savings and the importance of it. Usually, they will spend all their money when they get it, now they save their money for more important things or for "rainy days".

Don't forget to teach them about gambling under financial education as well.

Just last week, I taught my child why they should never gamble. You can read about it here.

5. Privacy & Safe sex

Physical body and Privacy

When they are younger, it's important to teach them about privacy and tell them about their bodies. Teach them about their body parts using the right names.

For example, this is your penis or this is your vagina. No other words for it. It is not called a stick or your cookie.

Also, teach them that, their penis, vagina, breasts etc all form part of their privacy and they need to keep them that way, private!

They are not supposed to touch them on others because it's not on their body.

Safe sex

When they are off age or going into their teens, talk to them about safe sex.  Talk to them about contraceptives, condoms, abstinence and the whole nine yards. 

Do not think, it's much safer if you don't talk to them about sex. 

It's better if they hear it from YOU. You will be the better person to guide them to make better decisions. 

For some of you reading this, you went out there and had sex even when your parents told you not to. Wouldn't you have liked it, if you were educated on how to have safe sex?

We hope our children will listen to us but just incase they don't, then we hope they make a safer decision. Thus, teach them about safe sex but still admonish them to abstain.

Please share any other tips on things to teach children when they are young in the comments.

And until next time, know that 

You are enough, you are worthy!

Learn to Live life in the present 

And know that nothing last forever so everything will be fine! 

Take care of YOU, YOU have all you got!