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What is the most important thing that parents need to teach their children?
Carol S 65719519-Jun-24
In this day and age, so many things have changed. Children's lives are so different from what mine was in the 50s and 60s. I can't even relate to their lives.

Because the world is so different, children need to learn things that I never needed to know. What do you think we need to teach our children for them to be the best they can be in this modern world?
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  • The ability to seperate nonsense from facts and act accordingly.
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    • PATIENCE AND RESPECT
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      • RESPECT - like Aretha said.
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        • Manners would go a long way to making them successful.
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          • Simple - Respect for others
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            • tyvm Summer H
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              • Kids need to know Jesus our Saviour who comes from the Father God. Read the bible and share the truth. Period.
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                • Good teacher as help understand the real world. what to do
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              • Yes it is a whole different world now. I really don't know what are more important any more. They do need to know how to "network" as well as the "normal" manners, literacy, consequences, compassion, conserving, budgeting, courtesy, being happy with themselves, changing what they can change but handling what they can't change. I guess also they need technology knowledge now
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                • To not scream in the supermarket.
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                  • how to get along with others
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                    • Teach them to be respectful.
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                      • Teach them about Bible based principles! Teach them what the Bible says at Galatians 5:13-26, in part, ""You must love your neighbor as yourself"", "Now the works of the flesh are manifest,...", "On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, ...". Teach them about how people are, and what's coming soon! At 2 Timothy 3:1-5 it says, in part, "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here." Read Romans 1:28-32, Matthew chapter 24, Luke 21:25-28, I could go on and on, but the most important thing you can teach your children is in the Bible, what's happening, what's going to happen, and where this earth is headed, to become a paradise as it was meant to be, and what they have to do to be there! Read Psalm chapter 37! ;-D
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                        • Respect and the value of money .
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                          • Teach them respect and just to do the best they can at school and work towards there dream job and honesty is very important
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                            • Manners and respect.
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                              • Teach them about God
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                                • Safety. My daughter took her son to kindergarten (day 1) and the teacher caught him stopping another child from putting something into a power socket. Safety is extremely important.
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                                  • We tend to cater to our children and their needs, making our schedules and plans around them. Some of that is pure parenting survival. But ultimately, it's not always helpful; life has a way of messing up even the most careful plans. Kids need structure, sure, but they also need to be able to adjust to the inevitable curve balls
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                                    • If you don't work you don't eat
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                                      • All Children today and yesterday needed to know one thing... that they are unique, special and worthwhile and so is every other human on the planet.and the moral code of life... All the rest is secondary and depends on country, culture etc
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                                        • La responsabilité est plus importante Parce que de là ressort les enfants honnête humble et sociable
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                                          • Respect and honesty
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                                            • Good Morals (which includes "respect").
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                                              • How to do Surveys.
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                                                • Teach them. The word respect
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                                                  • Love
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                                                    • Kindness
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                                                      • i think manners and respect for other people and their property are equally important. However I think Morals are also very important.
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                                                        • don't have them
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                                                          • Respect manners and ask questions
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                                                            • In today's world the teachers in the schools need to teach the children other things besides reading, math, science, history. It does no good for the parents to teach something to their children if the child goes to school and teacher tells them something else. Teachers have no respect in the classroom, How can you think the parents should teach when the teach does not teach? I will be 80 in 3 weeks and the schools today does not teach or expect the teachers to teach the things children need to learn. Telling a child that if a parents spanks a child call the police. Is wrong. The children are taking over the world the parents have lost all control and schools today they have no control.
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                                                              • Respect and honesty
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                                                                • Yes that is what I said 👍😎
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                                                              • Empathy!
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                                                                • we are teaching our children to maintain a good strong attitude of love their neighbors
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                                                                  • Manners and what to do in dangerous/challenging situations.
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                                                                    • Respect, Faith, traditional family values
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                                                                      • Respect
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                                                                        • HI Asesh S (TY)
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                                                                          • Respect, kindness, to do their own research before jumping to conclusions and privacy which means not putting everything on social media.
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                                                                            • I think children should be taught manners first but far most. Also a bit of respect. We are bringing up the ME generation and that is all the seem to care about is what is in it for me
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                                                                              • Respect, manners and how to work hard. I know of many good paying jobs out there that can’t be filled because the youth of today feel the work is too hard. They’d rather be playing video games or doing something with computers. That’s all fine & good, but not everyone can make a living at gaming or computers. Yet they can’t or won’t do these “ tough” jobs.
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                                                                                • RESPECT AND KINDNESS AS I WAS TAUGHT ALONG WITH BEING HUMBLE
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                                                                                  • Respect others
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                                                                                    • manners
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                                                                                      • Respect and good manners
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                                                                                        • Kindness
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                                                                                          • Look at your children...their faces in golden rays...don't kid yourself they belong to you..they're the start of a coming race...the Earth is a bitch...we've finished our news...homo sapiens have outgrown their use...all the strangers came today..and it looks as if they're here to stay.. (all you pretty things...by David Bowie...prophetic stuff) A nine year child could do this...quick go outside and find me a nine year old child! (Groucho Marx) The kids can explain to you what the hell is going on...and fix things you cannot...and you can explain to them why half of it is madness...and what it was like before mobile phones and the internet....and fix all the other things that they cannot understand at all... because they were never taught properly at school....
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                                                                                            • I'd say respect for other people, no matter the differences.... visible or not. That never goes out of style..... or at least it shouldn't.
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                                                                                              • Learning to adapt to changes and have good manners.
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                                                                                                • Teach the children life values and lessons from the Word of God and they will live a life to the full.
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                                                                                                  • People today pay to attention much to the media. We need to take a few step back and see some of the good out there. also if the where more parents looking after there instead of day care u would not have a lot of todays social problems.
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                                                                                                    • Yes RESPECT is number one,parents are far too busy with their busy lives to sit their kids down and explain facts of life,half the time they don't even know what their are doing, not enough monitoring,I am sorry to say this this kids have way too much free time no family discussions and I blame the cell phone use.
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                                                                                                      • Manners
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                                                                                                        • The basics in every generation are what matters. Confidence, empathy, manners, self reliance, respect and responsibility.. An education is a must and children should also learn the basics here as I am appalled at the spelling and grammar I see, read and hear day in day out. I never had a good education and was sent out to work at 15 and from the first pay check I had to pay board, my lunch money, dry cleaning costs, travel costs to and from work, buy my own clothes and personal requirements etc. I was responsible for myself from that day on. Yes things were difference in the 50's and 60's and I too was a child/teen during those years. No matter what generation we are, I still think these basic tools are what is now missing.
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                                                                                                          • Courtesy and kindness will go a long way in helping our kids negotiate life's challenges and triumphs.
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                                                                                                            • Good topic, Carol.😐 I'm not sure we can go back to those better times tho. We have a sick bunch of people who think it's ok to do immoral things. The leftards and feminist bitches have ruined our society for good. I'm not sure it's going to ever be any better than it was decades ago. I'm just so glad that I don't have kids as this world is being ruined and cannot see how it can change for the good. " It's all about people's rights", never about what's good for society in general. No wonder we have so many unstable people around today. It's the morality factor that is one major cause. With out values and self respect you won't have much. It doesn't matter how much money or successful you are, if you aren't a decent person then you aren't much good. Your behaviour is what you will be judged on in the end. Look at that royal HARRY and how he betrayed his family.
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                                                                                                              • Awareness of what is going on around them and to follow their gut feeling. Good manners takes them a long way in life too.
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                                                                                                                • You are right! In our parents day they usually were raised better. My mothers father was rather strict, as probably was his own father. Some good qualities were passed onto me,but not so with a couple of siblings who had loose morals. So I guess it's what you pick up when you are very young. It needs to start early or you might miss out on that important element of upbringing. I was a very aware kid so picked up on rights and wrongs easily. Many kids and teens don't have good parents who can pass on wisdom and morals to their kids. I feel very sorry for those kids. I'm a bit disgusted how some of my niece's and nephews were raised. Parents being too liberated with them. Tho, most are living pretty good lives. I think social media is also ruining kids lives. They are getting twisted information from websites like tick-tock. Where are they going to get their moral standards from if the parents don't have much? They won't get it from tick-tock. Look at the disgusting behaviour of famous people! So many are just hypocrites with no sense of what is normal. I think bringing some old fashioned values back is the way we should be going.
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                                                                                                                  • Respect and resiliance
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                                                                                                                    • Many kids are short on both of those qualities.
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                                                                                                                  • It's still manners for me and definitely nowadays how to keep themselves and their friends safe.
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                                                                                                                    • Like the Aretha Franklin dong said RESPECT. I have seen children are severely lacking in that department
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                                                                                                                      • It starts with parents first.
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                                                                                                                    • Respect
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