It’s crucial to have a set of leadership skills in your life!
Category : Children's Education Education Leadership for Children
When you are a child you have natural leadership skills.
It’s crucial to have a set of leadership skills in your life.
You are fearless. You are by naturehttps://www.smartlittleleaders.com/blog the boss until your parents let you know that you are not.
It’s very important how you as a parent introduce sets of restrictions for your child. If you do it invisibly in a game form, while having fun with your child, you can softly yet firmly introduce these rules to your child. You have to explain in a nice way what your child can do and what is not allowed.
The first reaction of your child on limiting his/her freedom is to cry as loud as they can, or get angry and throw a tantrum. This is due to your child still feeling fearless and having not yet faced a greater authority than their own. A child’s conscious and subconscious mind does not yet possess all the blocks until they reach school age.
If your child goes to public school, their first reaction may be that Hell on Earth has arrived.
At school, your child may feel like he/she was thrown from a bridge into cold water and having to learn how to survive bullying, peer pressure, unfriendly kids, and new authorities destroying their happy personality that they had before attending school.
At school, for the first time, your child learns so many negative things about themselves that sometimes it can overwrite many of the beautiful qualities in your child’s character. As a result, your child’s self-esteem, self-confidence rapidly crashes. Often your child has to face open hatred, humiliation, and a lack of respect to your child as a person.
If your child acquired some leadership skills before he/she went to school, they would be more prepared for these big changes in their structured living environment! Having these additional skills can avoid their minds slowly but surely getting filled with mental blocks and layered fears which can force your child to become average instead of reaching their true potential.
So, how can your child be better mentally prepared for a public-school environment?
How can you train your child to withstand huge mental and psychological obstacles created by peers and authority figures? How can you as a parent keep your child’s leadership skills that he/she had from birth? How can your child overcome a public-school experience with dignity and develop a complete set of leadership skills that will help him/her to remain and continue growing as a leader?
Here is how:
When your child is 5 years old, you as a parent should evaluate your child’s leadership skills, simply writing down on a piece of paper your child’s strengths on one side and weaknesses on another side. This will give you a clear picture of what you should work on with your child. It’s very important that you support a healthy initiative in your child, rewarding and recognizing it aloud. This will also help grow self-confidence in your child by understanding his/her uniqueness.
If you as a parent, can afford to stay at home with your child and do homeschooling, it would definitely reward your efforts in the future. I can say this because I taught my own children at home until 7th grade.
What are the benefits of homeschooling? To make it short, you are the main influencer and trendsetter for your child. While he/she is able to learn in a supportive environment free of bullying, peer pressure, and humiliation, and unbelief in your child’s hidden potential and uniqueness.
In this situation, only you will be responsible for their intellectual and emotional growth along with growing their leadership skills.
If your child can attend a private school, that would still be a better option than a public school. However, if you are not able to do that, then you have to realize that when you are tired and return from your work, you still have to communicate, encourage and develop all the best qualities that your child has. This is not an easy job, as you have to confront all the negativity that your child absorbed while at public school that day.
Of course, if your child is able to attend leadership classes as early as 5 years old, I can help you to grow your child into a strong leader over a period of time regardless of what temperament your child possesses.
By using all my best technics that I used with my own children, who are now well grown, and were able to preserve and develop their leadership skills along with their own personality and uniqueness.
