Helping Children Make Decisions

The ability to make decisions is one of the key features of a successful person. However, there are many people who have enormous difficulty of having to make decisions. Reach the point of preferring others make their decisions for them or that life takes its course and "what will be will be." The problem with this passive attitude is that their lives will be at the mercy of the criterion of other people and circumstances around them. However, to be a successful person must learn to have a proactive attitude and knowing how to measure the risks inherent in each decision. We should not ignore the importance of knowing how to take decisions in life, because the choices we make determine the course that will take our lives. How can we help our children make right choices? It's simple. We need to stop taking it for them, if that is possible according to their age and maturity.

We must allow them wrong within a preset safety limit. The worst thing we can do as parents is patronized and do everything for them not to suffer. Unfortunately, mistakes and personal experience are the best teachers and we must help them learn from them. Here are three key things that you should teach your children to help them make right choices in life: 1 .- Each decision we make has a consequence that we must take, good or bad. Explain to your children the possible consequences of its decisions and then let them make their decisions. Along with this is not the blame for their mistakes.

They have to make mistakes to learn. Each time your kids make a mistake, discuss it with them and help them find how to avoid that mistake in the future. Do not pay, remember that it is a learning process to real life. If you condemn their children every time you make a mistake, they will become adults who never take important decisions in their lives for fear of making mistakes. Winston Churchill said that success is going from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm. In the same way we teach our children that failures are only stepping stones to success. Let your children make small mistakes when they are small and will be better prepared when having to make major decisions in the future. 2 .- All the decisions we make in life fall into two categories: A. – B. Morales – Financial This forces us to prioritize our lives. Give your children a solid foundation of values and life principles that will guide the time of having to make decisions. Not enough to have the necessary knowledge to make good decisions in life. We need wisdom, which is the ability to apply that knowledge properly. An infallible source of wisdom for life is the bestseller of all ages, the Bible. Read a chapter from the book of Proverbs with their children every 3 .- Our most important decisions are not between bad and good option. The most difficult decisions we will face in life are between something good, something better and something optimal. It is usually easy to recognize a bad option. However, most of the time we must make good to excellent. And again we need wisdom to distinguish between one or the other.