by KKaryn

Created on: April 07, 2010

I was a teacher for what I thought was the right age to start with three year olds. I still feel that way today even though I'm no longer teaching. Children will learn at this age very fast the dos and don'ts of dealing with adults. At this age children are starting to understand how to say what they want and ask questions that adults never dreamed they would be answering to a three year old. There are two things that I still live by concerning teaching children, 1. children learn by example and 2. teach them what you want them keep for a life guide before the age of five.

When we don't think that those little ears hear us and those little eyes see us, we are lying to ourselves. If we listen and watch them like they do us we will be able to teach them better the things they need. To be a good parent and teacher, one of the first thing is you have to understand what you are teaching and live it. If loyalty is what you are teaching than you have to be a loyal person, it will take more than knowing how to spell it, you need to be able to know what it means.

Putting our teaching into action is very important when teaching children. As parents we feel that we can tell our children whatever we want and then not follow though with it, however that is teaching them to not become loyal. If you tell a child that you are going to take them for ice cream on Saturday and you don't and have no good reason, you have started the ball rolling toward teaching disloyalty. As we know there are two sides to every story and if your child is trying to tell you their side and you don't listen, the ball is starting to roll faster.

When the child is in the school play and is counting on you being there and you don't show up; if the child is hurting from being teased at school and tells you about it and you don't offer any comfort, the ball as hit the child and now the lesson of being disloyal is in their mind and heart and they become the same way with their children.

Children like to know that the adult in there life is there when they need them and true to their word. The only way a child will learn to be loyal is to see loyalty in action in their life. Loyalty is an action word and if you are not able to be loyal you can not teach loyalty.

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