By Daniel Uduh

Giving birth to a child and giving the child the foundation he needs to face the hurdles in life is an entirely different thing. Like most people do (which I term to be an error), they give birth to a child and leave the child solely in the hands of nature to learn by experience. This is not good. Every adult who is now a parent has so far know how challenging life can be growing up as a child. The experience is very vast. This is why every child needs to be tutored by their parent. Thanks to the fact, that children naturally are good learners and mimickers. This makes it very easy to give them the right foundation before adulthood. There are a lot of things a child can consciously or unconsciously learn from the parent, but this post is revealing those very vital ones parents must ensure they transfer to their wards.

1. Preparation of meals

Studies have shown that the three basic needs of man are food, shelter, and clothing. Every child must be taught how to prepare dishes of various kinds. There are uncountable numbers of dishes in the world. The child must be very good in the preparation and ways of serving the dishes that are related to his nationality. Getting knowledge of foreign dishes can also be a plus to the child too. This makes the child different from others.

2. Home decorations

It can be very interesting involving the whole family in the decorations of the house. Occasions like a small birthday party, Christmas, Ramadan, Easter, wedding anniversary, are all very good opportunity to get our home both inside and out to wear a good new look. It must not necessarily be done in an expensive way. Just changing the furniture’s position, flowers, wall galleries, wall art designs, etc, can do the magic. As the child sees all these, he sees the beauty of life and will be eager to replicate such when becoming an adult.

3. Proper dressing

Letting the child know the importance of good clothing is very vital. At least getting to know how to wash, iron, stack, or hang clothes at appropriate places. What to put on and what not to put on at various events can go a long way in helping the child. He must know that it is not all about how expensive the cloth is, but how well neatly kept, designed, and appropriately worn that matters.

4. Being nice

Being kind and nice is a rare trait in our world today. Naturally nice people draw a lot of friends to themselves and have so many people looking up to them as mentors. Every child needs to know how important it is to be nice (not to a fault) to people they meet in life. This has saved so many. This has opened ways for so many.

5. Savings

It will be good if children know the importance of saving and not be wasteful. If a child knows how savings can help save someone’s life, taking reference from the experience from the COVID-19 pandemic of today, they will be scared not to have savings for the unforeseen tomorrow.

6. Investing

The child should also be exposed to the benefits of being an investor. This can help the child to start building his future early, hence escaping from hardship and future financial difficulties. Any child who knows these things early enough can never be a small person in life.

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