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Training Children To Be Leaders

Children who learn to be strong leaders come from strong, decisive parents.

Strong decisive parents understand that children need leaders to lead and take charge of children's lives and what they do.

Here is why.

From zero to five years old, children have little reasoning power. They need training in what they do. They need training in right things to do because they lack mental capacity to make right choices.

To give children over-sized, adult-like choices is a common mistake. By asking them to make choices they are not qualified to make instills feelings of inadequacy and insecurity.

At about five years of age, they begin growing more reasoning power; a perfect time to start nurturing them to make more choices for themselves; first little choices, then bigger choices as they mature toward adulthood.

This includes allowing them to make wrong choices but not dangerous choices. Let them make some wrong choices for learning. And be prepared to love them unconditionally. Show them they are loved at all times through right and wrong. But also teach them how to make right choices.

At the same time, limit the choices they make on their own. After all, you have more experience and you have final say.

More child research is showing the importance of the first five years. These are the molding years for a lifetime and golden years for shaping children for life.

Strong decisive parents give children a framework of expectations to work from. That framework is like the walls of a home, a safe, secure, predictable place where children can emotionally learn security, responsibility, and love.

Teach them right from wrong and where they need to be; a difference they will need to know for where to be for security, responsibility, and love.