HOW TO RAISE HEALTHY AND HAPPY CHILD

Childhood years are the best times to learn.

Parents should take advantage of these learning

years  to ingrain the values of life in their children.

If you’re a parent, teach them positive habits so

that they will know and see the beauty that life has to

offer.Make them enthusiastic about life.

Instill into their hearts and minds all the wonders and
magnificence of being alive by living life to its fullest
in a positive way.
There’s a startling difference between  children learning
through self-discovery,  with proper guidance.
The first things that children learn are usually the things
that stay with them and mold formative years until they
reach adulthood.
Let us suppose you let your children learn through
self-discovery.

To a certain extent, self-discovery is good  since it
develops full independence and self-reliance.
However, the learning process might be slow.In a sense,
it is like a trial and error experience for children.
They have to segregate the good from the bad, the right
from the wrong, what they like and what they don’t.
It is most likely that what they will like are the ones that
come easy to them or the ones that they enjoy the most.
And the ones that they enjoy the most  might not necessarily
be the good ones. Without proper guidance,what they like
and enjoy the most  might actually be hurting them although
they are not aware of it.Perhaps later, if they find out that
they picked the wrong choices, it may be too late.
With self-discovery through proper guidance, you will be
able to leave room for them to develop independence and
self-reliance.
At the same time, show them what is right  and what is wrong.
Explain to them why.
If possible, cite instances or examples  based on true-to-life
events to make them more convincing and realistic.
The more realistic they are,the more easily the children are
convinced. Likewise, try teaching them in a friendly and
humorous atmosphere.
Children are more attentive and eager to learn when all
are in an easy mood.
You will know and feel their eagerness to learn through the
sparkle in their eyes and  by the way they answer  your
questions. You can be sure that what they learn from you
is acceptable to them and will stay with them.
That is why, as a parent, you must show  enthusiasm in life
to your children.
There’s a third method of making children learn.
That is through proper guidance  leaving negligible room for
self-discovery.
But there are drawbacks. You take away from them the
benefits of self-reliance and independence.
The guidance you devote to them  may be good and well
intended, but they must not rely on you.They become
decision-dependent on you.There are instances wherein
this type of guidance might be worse than giving no  guidance
at all.
There are parents who underwent hardships during their
childhood, strived, and became successful financially.
Although they are financially in the position to guide and
assist their children to a better life, they prefer that their
children undergo the same difficult experience they underwent
during their younger years.
Their reason: so that their children will value and experience
the same things they went through.
This may be applicable to stubborn and rebellious youngsters,
but not to disciplined ones.
Why must their sons and daughters repeat the same difficulties?
There’s no reason to.
This is like punishing the innocent.Instead of repeating the
experience, they should learn from it.Life is too short to repeat
unsavory experiences.
One of the best ways to broaden your children’s knowledge
about life is by traveling.
The world - its varied people, places, and cultures  - has a lot
of information to offer.
It is perhaps as important as  the conventional classroom.
If you are financially able, traveling is one of the best educational
experiences you can give your children.
Books are the next best things.

It’s traveling by reading. Children who read at home,are generally
much more successful in school,  than those who do not.
The easiest way to raise a child's grades, self-esteem, and
reading level is to read with them.
The extra benefit is that  whenever you spend quality
time with a child, that child feels special and well loved.
Stay awake as best you can.

The very energy you attract to yourself by your wish to
awaken gives your child a kind of  "food" that gives them
a tremendous head start in developing their essence.
Children not only see better than adults, but they can
taste what they see in a way  adults have forgotten about.
If they "taste" your inner silence, they'll want to be nourished
in time  by  what they have seen.
The  only way you  can help those you  love,  is  by increasing
the presence of  Love  in your heart.
This does not mean you  pretend to be different.
Children see your phoniness and resent you  for being a hypocrite.
Instead, become a living example within yourself
Children not only respond to real honesty, but they love it and
are nourished by it.
Fill your children with thoughts of  self-importance, confidence,
and positive attitude so that there will be no room  for negative
thinking. More importantly, fill their world with laughter,love,
and understanding.  You‘ll never go wrong.