Parents’ Guide to Raising Great Kids

Most of the rich parents today had worked very hard for what they have.

But the question is: can your kids grow up to be the giant, the fighter that you are, when they have all they wish for, almost at the press of a button.

On average, kids from rich parents may not perform well in school because of laxity. The kid who comes from a poor neighborhood, if intelligent enough does very well because for him, the stakes are high. He either works hard at school, or remain very poor, perhaps even worse than the life that his parents can afford t o give him.

That really puts the father or mother who has lived his dream in very a difficulty situation.

Let’s face it. What is parenting?

There may be many answers to this question, and there exists countless experts in the field; but the key remains: parenting is meant to develop a child into an independent and successful adult.

That’s key. You can do everything else as a parent, but if you raise children who cannot make decisions or take up responsibility, then the work was futile, actually very futile.

Now, what exactly is a parent who is well to do, supposed do?

DO NOT; make things look like the child has nothing to lose however his performance is; and don’t make your life look so effortless. Sometimes, tell the guys how tough business is. Let them know the difficulties that are happening at the office.

Off course you cannot start telling your kids details of how you are working, but if the company that you are working for is going through a tough time, you can mention something that communicates that life, is tough.

Let your kids know that many times, people are between a rock and hard place when they make decisions.

If you are doing private business take them along with you so that they know how you are pulling the strings. This is helpful because in case of death or injury, your older children can run the business.

This makes sense, rather than having everything you worked for crumble within a short time of you being incapacited.

Experts in the field of leadership insist that a leader’s success is measured by how he grooms a successor who takes over the vision.

Another very important technique that rich parents can apply is to allow their kids to stay with their relatives who are not at the same level with them in terms of finances. By allowing the kids to spend a holiday at a brother’s or cousin’s place, they can be aware that people do struggle, even to put food on the table.

Please, remember not to make those kids think life requires no effort, because it does. Yes, life requires some serious effort in all our endeavors if we are to be successful.

Sometimes you can allow the kids see how your less fortunate workmate is living, let them play with his kids, so that they know that people can lack, that people struggle. This can also help develop the spirit of sharing in your kids.

When they tell you that their friend has no toys, maybe he is lacking clothes, or school text books, suggest that they consider sharing what they have.

Most of us may think our kids cannot stay in conditions that are less than what we have provided for them, but we are wrong. Children are very adaptive people. They are very flexible. By the way, it may not even be a big deal that they are visiting a poor family.

At the end of the day, you don’t want to raise kids who cannot make good decisions or be confident in enough to live on their own.

Life is very tough these days. With financial crises in the world’s major economies, like the US and Western Europe, we all must ready ourselves for tough times; in case, they knock on our door. Globalization has set the dynamics of the world economies in sensitive situations.

When a Nigerian militant in the Niger Delta blows up an oil pipeline for SHELL, the effect extends to many countries, hence the need to grow kids with steel backbones.

One must aim at ensuring that his kids develop a high sense of responsibility, a high sense of flexibility and a high sense of survival.

With these essential life skills, you can be sure that the ‘GUYS’ will make it even when you are not there.