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Children Taking Charge
10 Ways to Raise a Successful Leader
By Sally Sacks
4. Encourage your child's input into ideas. Ask her what she thinks about a news event, or a topic of discussion. Allow her to express her point of view, even if it differs from yours.
5. Give your children chores/projects to do that make them feel good about their accomplishments. Maybe they can learn to make a soup for dinner, or clean an area of the house or arrange a room as they would like it. Praise them for their efforts.
6. Let them make decisions about dinner, what they'd like to do on the weekend, where they might like to vacation.
7. Show them how you take charge of situations. If you're bored, you create something to do. If you are short money, you take action to do something about it. You do not let situations bowl you over and render you helpless.
8. Teach your children how to think positively. Teach them how thinking can get negative, and how to insert positive thinking into their minds immediately. This is a skill they will have and need forever.
9. Show passion, courage and bravery in your own life.
10. Encourage freedom in themselves to be and express who they are and allow others to do the same, when not putting someone else in harm's way.
Just remember that you need to teach what you want to see in your children by setting examples by your words and actions. We must be constantly mindful of our actions if we want to raise a leader, be it a leader in our child's own personal world or in the world at large. We often may do or say the wrong thing, or a non-productive thing, but if we are always mindful of the most productive words and behaviors to use, our kids will have a good chance of succeeding in this challenging world ahead.
