How to raise tolerant children 35 Articles

by Violet Fortune

Children learn by imitation, therefore if you express racial tolerance, your children will likely do the same. It also helps to expose them at an early age to a variety of ethnic peoples. We live in a town that has a br...read more

by EMSalem

Be tolerant, that's how you raise tolerant children. You raise tolerant children by being tolerant. I know of no other method of teaching this important attitude. If attitudes can be taught, that is. An attitude of intoler...read more

by Tonya Barton

You've heard it before. Children learn what they live. This statement has proved to be factual time and again. Children are people too. Impressionable people who grow into adults, continuing in the cycle of what they w...read more

by Nicola Gray

Children live what they learn. And who is responsible for what children learn? Outside of the classroom, it is their parents. If parents aim to raise tolerant children, then parents themselves must be tolerant. Even this, ...read more

by R.L Hanlon

How can you raise a tolerant child when they mimic and learn intolerance from their superiors? I am assuming this topic is based on parents who are tolerant, or those who have found the error of their ways and are more to...read more

by Bob Schmidt

If you want to raise tolerant children, it is vital to exhibit that behavior to them. Children mimic the behavior of those around them, with the parents having the greatest influence. In order to raise a tolerant child, a ...read more

by Erin Yarrobino

One of the great worries in parenthood is how to raise a child to be a mature, responsible adult. Most parents want their children to be respectful of others, no matter which race, religion, or background the other people ...read more

by Jennifer Searle

During the first two years of your child's life you spend most of your time identifying their body parts. "These are you toesthese are your fingersthis is your leg" Once a child learns to separate their bodies from the res...read more

by Heather Norwood

There are several different ways to ensure that your child will be tolerant while they are under your roof. Random beatings, for example, are always useful when attempting to make your child conform to the kind of person ...read more

by Bev Maher

Children learn from what they are taught,at a very early age they mimick those around them.If they have an older sibling fro example that uses foul language they will inevitably start to copy.This does not mean these child...read more

by B.W. James

The ever increasing problem of raising tolerant children cannot be solved in just a few words. But I belive its all about one word:exposure! If a parent exposes their child to different ethinicities from the time they begi...read more

by Spencer Cane

Children don't know prejudice or hate or homosexuality or race, disabled, fat or thin. They see a playmate. Nothing more, nothing less. So, the question is: Where does intolerance come from? It comes from the parent...read more

by Heidi Hess Saxton

She flits into a room full of adults clad in a bathing suit and snow hat, an Elmo slipper on one foot and a Sunday patent-leather number on the other. Her "lovey," the grubby bit of flannel that she has held hostage since ...read more

by Rex Trulove

Are you tolerant? If you cannot honestly answer yes, it would be totally unrealistic and unfair to think that your children will be tolerant. As parents, if we want to make a true impact on our kids regarding toleran...read more

by Russ Rose

How do you raise tolerant children? Simply be being tolerant yourself. Be tolerant of differences. Difference in race, yes; religion, absolutely; culture, always; gender, without doubt. Tolerance does not mean acceptan...read more

by Lill Hawkins

I confess that I'm not comfortable with the term "tolerance". Acceptance is what I've tried to teach my children by example and in words. When I hear the word "tolerance", I can't help but interpret it as putting up with i...read more

by I. Michael Akbar

I don't believe that we "raise tolerant children" so much as we raise our children to reflect our own values and morals, and therefore, our own tolerance. Where we choose to worship, the language we use when discussing th...read more

by Mariya G

It is more important to raise children to be fair, well-socialized, and open-minded individuals. Tolerance is a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior, i.e. to let people believe what they want and live the wa...read more

by Morgan Johnson

Children are born tolerant. Put a group of toddlers together in a room full of toys and they will not separate by race, gender or age. They just see other individuals with the same interests and skills they have. These mig...read more

by francios

Raising a child all starts with one thing: ourselves. Any ideal or value that we want our children to nurture in their lives, must first be taught and exemplified by us, their parents. If we want our kids to love and have ...read more