TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN TO SAY "NO"
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The word "YES" and "NO" are words to be used by anyone. Children are not exempted! Making it look as if children are to always agree to whatever they are told is uncalled for. Children have the right to say No respectfully, and should be allowed to exercise that right at the time needed. It is one of the duties of parents to teach their children to say "No" respectfully without fear.
Do you know that as your child learn to say "No" it will ease him/her from lots of stress, pressure, intimidation and abuse? Saying " No" helps your child to be able to express his/her fears, pains, joy, and thought and that will also help you as parent to know exactly how your child feels, what he/she is passing through and by expressing it, you won your child's trust. And by winning the child's trust, you will get more knowledge about your child's thought and there you can guide him/her through advice, mentorship and prayers.
Now, how so you guide your children to say "NO"?
Practice to say "No" by declining request from a family member, neighbors or friends helps children to also learn to say "No" whenever it is needed for them to say
Teach them to express their feelings in terms of saying "No" whenever they are pressuresd by anyone be it an adult or their peers.
On my previous post tittle: "Reasons why Adolescents needs time and attention" I stated that children should be allowed to make their decision themselves sometimes(paraphrasing). It is necessary and important as parents, you respect your child's decision on saying "No" instead of forcing them out of that. It helps them build confidence.
In some cases where the word "No" may sound harsh, teach them to say it in another way like: "Maybe not today" I would have love to but sorry, I can't!.
Teach them about setting up of boundaries. Let nobody come into their lives and do whatever they want to do to them without them being able to say "No"
As parent, learn to praise your children whenever they say "No" respectfully, that will encourage them say it where necessary.
Finally, every parent is a role model to their children,be it in good or bad character therefore, as parent, as you say "No" respectfully in some scenario, your children will also learn to say "No" as children learn by what they see.
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STOPI think decision making for children comes with growth and responsibility. In the early stage of a child, he/she is naive to allot of things that only the parents can teach him or her. A child could want to make a decision that will cost him or her their future, we've seen such in many scenarios. So what if the child persist they don't want to do that thing you as the parent saw it is best for them, they want to do the contrary because we've given them the right to decision making at their age...
I think in cases like this, one person's decision must have to override the other, and it's definitely not the child's I guess..
Absolutely, you are right. Though the area I'm looking at is parents teaching their children to be able to say No to somethings. Many or should I say some parents trained their children to be obedience to elders forgetting to teach them areas where they need to say NO to somethings coming from elders or peers. Saying no to things like: Molestation which will give such child a long time trauma, child abuse,peer pressure et-al
Now, my note focus on educating parents on ways or how they can teach their children to say No. If you understand my point, you will agree with me that a child has right to say No to abuse or wrong doing coming from whoever and when taught by his/ her parent, it will really save the child. Thank you @ovey10 for your wonderful comment sir.🙏💖