Solidarity: Educate children in values

What is solidarity? When is it said that a person is supportive? How can children be educated to show solidarity? Solidarity is a value that can be defined as awareness of the needs of others and the desire to contribute and collaborate for their satisfaction. It is a value that must be promoted both in the family and at school, as well as in other areas because it provides important benefits for children.

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10 tips to teach solidarity to children

The value of solidarity teaches children to work as a team, to share, give in, respect, and live with other people, avoiding individualism and selfishness. Children are not born solidarity, solidarity is taught to children in many ways and different situations every day. Here are some tips to teach children to show solidarity:

Solidarity: Educate children in values

  1. Solidarity must be taught and transmitted to children above all through example. Parents must exercise solidarity among themselves, with their children, neighbors, friends, and other family members. It is the exercise that most encourages the internalization of values ​​in children.
  2. Parents must teach children to put themselves in the place of the other and that can begin with themselves. From 2 years of age, children already begin to be more aware of the other, of behaviors such as sharing, assisting, collaborating, helping, etc. This is a good time to start.
  3. Being supportive should be a rule like the other rules of education.
  4. Communication between parents and children is very important. Communication fosters children’s confidence in the teachings and transmission of values ​​from their parents. [1]
  5. It is recommended that parents talk to their children about what is right and wrong, as well as what the other would like and what they could do to collaborate, to help, or cooperate.
  6. A permissive or authoritarian education is not an ideal channel for the transmission of values. To promote pro-social values ​​such as solidarity, the child must receive a more democratic education, in a positive affective and communicative environment, that the child has the freedom to express himself.
  7. Discuss with the children some situations or events that reinforce the solidarity work of some person and what she has achieved. Thus, they will be promoting this important value.
  8. At school, empathy should be worked on in children, that is, the awakening of concern for others. That they help the little ones to carry the backpack, that they share school supplies that they have forgotten, and that they worry about a companion who is sick …
  9. Solidarity is altruism that is learned and strengthened with practice and exercise.
  10. Solidarity is fostered by combating selfish, comfortable, intolerant gestures, attitudes, and behaviors … in children. Published By kidsrush.com

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