Make your children good decision makers….

We usually think children shouldn’t take decision, as they are small and they don’t know what is right and what is wrong and we wait till they mature and make them include in the decision making, but we forgot if we suddenly force them to take decision, how will they take without any prior experience pr anything.

So it is necessary to let the child involve in decision making since childhood. Teaching your child to make their own decisions has several benefits. If you led them to take small decisions, and when they make good decisions, they gain a great amount of satisfaction and fulfilment because they chose it and if they take wrong decision they may suffer, but they can learn from it and they can make better decisions in future. It doesn’t mean that you give your child the complete freedom of decision making. It may be dangerous sometimes. Give your child freedom to make some decision based on their age, maturity and previous decision making abilities.

To help the child with decision making first educate the about it a little bit. Start withbsome steps if he had done homework of his own so is it a good choice or a bad choice, similarly helped you in household chores. So we can talk about various decisions which led them to think.

Teach them to pause and think before taking a decision. A few second of thinking prevent a lot of bad decisions. Guide them while thinking about options they have and also evaluate the consequences. They need to weigh thr risks and benefits of their decisions both in the short term and long term. Then led them to act upon the best options and allow them to from the experience whether the decision was good or bad.

Allow them to sometime take the decision of their own, which you think may not harm the children. Give them the opportunity to think about their decision, do not overreact on their decision and allow them to learn from their mistakes.

So it is necessary for parents to guide and help their children in developing good decision making skills so that they will grow up and become an independent, responsible and happy adult.