Facilitate mutual respect between yourself and your child.

Learn how to help your child improve their behaviour

and feel good about it.

Discover how to communicate with your child, not at your child.

is a project of Tag Institute for Social Values.

www.taginstitute.orgFor more information contact

nechoma@taginstitute.org

Workshops Join a stimulating and dynamic

workshop for an entertaining and thought-provoking discussion.

Practise your skills using puppets, stories and role-play for an interactive and engaging experience that makes values realistic and fun to explore.

Honesty Kindness

RespectGratitude Nurture the parent in you and feel confident in

your abilities to instill good values and

behaviour in your child.

The home should be set up to nurture and foster sound priorities. Children need to beraised in an environment that celebrates and embodies good values.

Children need to be taught a moral language that can inspire good choices and appropriate behaviour

It is best to instil values and build character through practical actions so that children can relate to them.

Motivation through reward or punishment is not as desirable as motivation to do the right thing.

Communicating Values

Carrot: Bribe or reward for co-operation, If you listen and get this done, I’ll take you for pizza, OK?

Stick:Punishment for the child not doing as they

are told.‘If you can’t help with the shopping, I will send you upstairs’

Values:Encourage children to do the right thing

based on previously discussed values.‘We live in a sharing home’

‘You can’t tell them to do anything, but you can teach

them to do everything’ Herman Wouk (playwright and novelist

quoting Rabbi MM Schneersohn.)

Motivate and empower your child to make better choices.

Learning by doing, growing through practice.

To

is to give your child the ability to understand your family vision and to encourage your child to join you in a journey.

is to learn the skill of applying ethics in a concrete, down-to-earth way so that they serve as moral guidelines that direct our behaviour.

is to create an environment that enables values to be imparted in a non-judgmental way to children and to communicate in a way that encourages our actions to be thoughtful and positive.

The values perspective

Parenting is a long-term process, like

sowing seeds that blossom in the fullness

of time.