It is true that schools can inform students about what are the fundamental values and the importance they have for their life while reinforcing the ones they learn in their home, but they will have little success trying to teach children what they do not live in your family. Unlike the sciences or the humanities, ethical values are not learned in books or classes. Values are inculcated, that is, they are something children capture and incorporate as a result of what they see the people they love and admire the most: their father and mother.
Since during childhood our children venerate us and want to imitate us in everything, we are the ones in the best position to infuse them with solid ethical and moral values that serve as parameters to govern their lives. This means that their parents are the books in which they learn the values that should regulate their moral conduct through the lessons we give them with our way of proceeding. Thus, the issue is not how to teach values to children, but what we are teaching them. For example, is it that the way we treat those around us is showing them that respect is a value for us?
Could it be that our punctuality at work or our compliance with payments will make children see that it is very important to be responsible? Could it be that the loyalty with our partner and the seriousness with which we assume all our commitments do attest to our honor?
Values are not something that is imposed from outside but something that comes from the depths of our being. Thus, to educate in values is to cultivate lovingly the good heart of the children, is to excite them to do well and seduce them to give their best. In this way their moral solidity will not be a lesson learned but an experience of life, which will be evident in the goodness they demonstrate and the peace they radiate.
Parents are the bow that triggers the lives of children. The strength of our moral structure, the temper of our convictions and the strength of our love depends, to a large extent, on the direction your life takes.
