Values Are More Often Caught Than Taught

Children drink in everything around them.
Values Are More Often Caught Than Taught
The actions of the parents affect their children in many ways. fizkes/Shutterstock
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Bents, characteristics, abilities, and tendencies are the conduits through which you can pass your values to your kids. But how exactly do you make the pass? It’s through your life, the way you live.

Kids learn most effectively through observation and imitation. It’s the witness of our lives—more than anything we say—that is taken in slowly and cumulatively by our children.

Mary Hunt
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