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15 June 2018 - Agreeable Manner of Conversation

1853 Advice for Today: Teach Child Daily

 "Mrs. Abell's advice to parents in 1853 on teaching children at home is still well taken."

We first met Mrs. L.G. Abell in our April post about Love Survives.

Here is what she says about teaching children:

"Few parents realize how much their children may be taught at home, by devoting a few minutes to their instruction every day. Let the parent make the experiment only during the hours which are not spent in school. Let him make a companion of his child, converse with him, propose questions, answer inquires, communicate facts, explain difficulties, the meaning of things, and the reason of things, and all in so easy and agreeable manner that it will be no task, but serve to awaken curiosity and interest the mind, and he will be astonished at the progress he will make."

Let's break this down.
Devote time to your children at home.
Become companions with your children. Being their friend and a parent.
Have conversation with your children.
Conversation that introduces debate, answers, is factual, and informational.
This conversation should be agreeable which means that it isn't about arguing, raising voices, or pushing opinions on each other.
This conversation serves to awaken their curiosity and their own interests.

This is great parenting advice!

I have a hard time with trying to teach my kids sometimes.
I want to instruct them on what is right and factual but they will straight up argue with me!

"The sky is blue."
"NO MOM!"

Geez kid what did I do.

My kids will also want to talk about boogers, farts, or if they can watch a rated R movie.

Should I converse with them more often?
Just to get them a bit more mature about what topics of conversation are appropriate.

Lately their conversation has been about money!
They want to make money.
They are eight.
(I have twins)
So they talk about what they can do to get paid.
But they think they will get thousands of dollars doing little tasks.

I can't help but laugh at them!

I guess I need to work on my "agreeable manner of conversation".
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