How To Raise Responsible Kids, with guest Dr. Maiysha

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In today’s episode of The Motherhood Kit, we continue our ‘How To Raise’ mini-series, exploring the issue of how to raise responsible kids. As our kids get older, it’s important for us to instil the importance of responsibility in them because it will in turn help them to be able to help themselves. In this episode, Yamel is joined Dr. Maiysha to discuss practical advice and tangible tips on how to do this.

Dr. Maiysha is an integrative Physician, Visionary, Thought Leader, Consultant and Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming, also known as NLP, and is the founder of the Mind Re-Mapping Co. Through her work, she helps individuals and organizations better understand trauma and how it affects the brain, our behaviour and our communication.

You can find out more about Dr Maiysha at her website and on her Instagram page.

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Tune in to hear Yamel and Dr. Maiysha’s conversation on how to raise responsible kids. Some of their advice includes:

Use the word ‘help’ to encourage your child

Both Yamel and Dr. Maiysha have found that one strategy that helps encourage their children to be responsible and take on tasks within the community that is the home is by appealing for your child’s help, which compels them to want to be responsible for you, and gives them a sense of pride in this.

Connect the task to the consequence, and to their goals

By making your child aware of the consequences of doing, or not doing, a certain task, they can better understand the bigger picture and the broader reasons behind why they need to step up and be responsible. Make your child think about their own goals, which will then encourage their responsible behaviour as a stepping stone to achieving these goals, and will also give them personal ownership of whatever the task is, as it’s linked to a future goal that they have set for themselves.

Model responsible behaviour

When trying to teach your child to be responsible, model responsible behaviour yourself, and make a point of the tasks and jobs that you are doing, that align with your future goals and the greater good of the family or community.

Allow them to experience the consequence

Although this can be hard to do at times, sometimes the best thing for your child is to let them feel and experience the pain point of the consequences of their lack of responsibility, so that they can then adjust their behaviour for the future.

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