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Family Units are Built on Relationships
from: Gregory BunyardA healthy family is built on good relationships. Maintaining
good relationships with one's children is not always easy and
requires conscious effort and skill. There is much that you as a
parent can do to foster good relationships with your children.
This includes:
Making a conscious effort to build and maintain a sound
relationship with your children;
Making time to spend with them; and
Spending time with them engaged in activates, playing games,
having fun and helping them acquire new skills. With this in
mind, a group of professionals from business, education and
psychology developed 'The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course'
which is a structured yet flexible programme designed to assist
parents in ensuring their children's future success and
happiness. It focuses on two main areas:
1. Providing children with the necessary knowledge, skills and
characteristics to achieve success in later life.
2. Producing a bond of love, respect and understanding between
parents and children through positive interaction.
The course is essentially a clear and practical step-by-step
guide, which positively involves parents with their children -
as partners. Children between the ages of 6 and 14 will derive
the maximum benefit from the course and parents don't need to
have any specialist knowledge of business.
The basis of The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course consists of
a wide variety of realistic business projects, which parents and
children take on together. In the process of carrying out the
various projects, children acquire the critical business,
financial and supporting skills, knowledge and characteristics
in an enjoyable and challenging environment.
The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course a very useful,
structured way to achieve the three goals mentioned at the start
of this article, since it provides a vehicle whereby you can
spend time with your children in the context of activity and fun
while at the same time teaching your children valuable life
skills.
You will benefit most from this course if you adhere to the
following principles:
Keep your eye on the process not the content of what you child
is learning. The experience gained in being part of a business
project is far more important than the specific details of what
they are doing.
Keep your long-term intention in mind when working with your
child. Do not expect your child to be the "perfect little
person" or the perfect businessperson - these are long-term
goals that take many, many years to achieve. See this exercise
as a part of the process of helping your child grow and develop
into a well-functioning happy adult.
Allow your child to make decisions and to feel the consequences
of these choices. Children need to feel that they have choices
and have control over their lives. Wherever possible allow your
children to choose - of course you can encourage them to think
about the consequences of their actions and decisions and to
make their decisions with full knowledge of what they are doing
and the consequences of their choices.
Build your child's confidence and self-esteem by stressing
successes. Success should be measured not by the outcome
achieved but by the amount of effort and the amount of learning
that has taken place,
Be aware of the messages and beliefs you transmit to your child
about the world. Common messages and beliefs that parents pass
on to their children include: The world is harsh. Life is
unfair. People cannot be trusted. Life is full of opportunities.
No matter what happens you will be able to handle it. People are
basically kind and good. Some of these messages are negative and
some are positive. What do you want your child to think about
the world? What messages do you want to pass on? How are you
going to pass these messages on?
Make time to work on this course with your children. This time
should be set aside and should be made a priority.
Have fun while working through the material. Children learn best
when they are enjoying themselves.
Be sure to check the course benefits at
http://www.ka-chingworld.com/programmes/
About the author:
Gregory Bunyard is the co-author and founder of the Ka-Ching!
Business Parenting course. Bunyard studied for his BCom at
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa where he majored in
Business Administration and Industrial Psychology and thereafter
obtained an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School in Scotland.
He has worked in Johannesburg, London and in the USA and has
travelled the world.
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