How to Raise a Jolly Bright Child
By: Mogotladi Makgato
Educating a child and teaching them manners is something parents should do when a child is at a very young age. Don’t wait until it’s too late.
Sometimes parents have too much weight on their shoulder and end up being hard on their children; especially teenage mothers. Ask your elders to help you.
This will help you relax a bit and not see your child as a burden. Leave your children with an elderly person you trust, it can be anyone in your family or neighbours.
Hire a nanny for a day or find a local nursery that can take care of a child and charge per day if they don’t go to nursery full time. You are the one who give them joy, but you can’t do it effectively if you are stressed, grumpy or tired.
As they grow things become a bit easy, but always make sure they are monitored. Don’t relax too much. Get them toys to play in the yard or find something to keep them buy indoors like colouring books, puzzles, abacas or story books.
It will not only keep them off the streets but also nourish them mentally. It will also give you time to do your chaos freely in the house.
Get to know all the neighbouring kids they play with. Some kids are used to using swearing words or bullying others, you don’t need your child to inhale such. Deal with it immediately, talk to their parents. Let your children play in an open space especially when there are other children from outside your house.
Never make love in front of your child especially if they are above two years because they will go practice what they saw with other kids while playing.
Last but not least forbid them from bully programs it is totally a no no; you don’t want to raise a bully.
