What makes a child rude or spitefull opposed to polite and caring!

I have always remembered parts of a poem which used to be in the head-mistresses office at my school, a poem about children learning what they live.

And so when i had my own children it was as though that poem almost became my instructions manual for bringing them up, which is quite lucky for a new Mum to have as children don't come with an instruction manual do they, which is why so many parents end up with naughty children who grow up to be nasty teens and then further on to become bad parents themselves.

Too many parents teach their children the wrong things and then end up wondering where they went wrong, or even blame the child for turning out the way they have when they become rude, spitefull and destructive.

If only every newborn baby came complete with this poem then i am sure that many of the bad parents would do things so much differently than they end up doing. A lot of bad parenting comes down to ignorance of the obvious whilst some comes down to the fact that they too had bad parenting and as such they know no better than to be bad parents themselves.

Seems pretty obvious for us that set our children the best example we possibly can doesn't it! The reason that we do this is usually down to the fact that we ourselves also had good parents who taught us from an early age how to behave. Children learn more from the world around them than they do from school, especially from their parents. Things such as good manners are picked up by children from their parents usually, as are bad manners. We don't have to tutor our child to grow up using good manners do we!, but a well mannered child picks up from their parents good manners as does a bad mannered child get it from their usually bad mannered parents.

If we swear in front of our children then it is only inevitable that our child will know how to swear isn't it!. If we often smack our children then it is obvious that our child will become spitefull, because as the child sees it if Mummy and Daddy do it then it isn't wrong to do the same.

This poem which i am going to give you a link to in a minute points out all of the things which a child learns from their parents such as good manners etc. the reason i am giving you this poem is for you to write it down and each time you know of a new parent to give them a copy of the poem. Maybe you know of a bad parent that could benefit from reading the poem, even send a copy to your local school to put up in the entrance so that more parents get to read it. It is one of those poems that once you have read it it sticks with you forever and i am sure that through reading the poem so many parents will do things a little differently when it comes to parenting their children.

This link takes you to the poem, parts of which will stick in your mind as it did mine although i cannot be certain that it remains exactly as the version we had at school back in the day as there have been several versions written since 1954 which was when the original was written.

http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/Kristone.html

Thankyou and Brightest-Blessings to you.