Table of contents:
- What are family values
- Defining Family Values for Children
- List of family values
- Examples of family values
All the times in which we have ever thought that the families of friends or other acquaintances are different from ours, we end up reflecting on the - why - of their priorities. Families form a system of values that are very frequently and easily transmitted between generations, a system that allows them to evaluate the most appropriate and healthy ways to achieve inter / intra personal coexistence. In this Psychology-Online article we share what family values are: what they are and examples.
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- Defining Family Values for Children
- List of family values
- Examples of family values
What are family values
Family values are the precepts, rules or agreements that guide the members of each family to a harmonious, fluid and balanced coexistence.
Generally, family values are based on various concepts of love. Love as the basis of different relationships frequently leads to a coexistence of tolerance, mutual growth, respect, solidarity and empathy, that is, family values direct attitudes, interests, thoughts towards human development.
As Ramos (2000) exposes, the child and the young person need to be educated based on the existence of clear, well-configured values, with a coherence that gives them credibility. In this aspect, there can be no double discourse, nor double life because experiences are transmitted and beliefs are lived.
Children are taught in the home even when it is not intended to; because the imitation factor acts in a powerful way.
The notion of good and evil is not something innate in children, it is the adults with their way of approving or disapproving of certain attitudes who will propose the norms. For example, from the age of 3, good is what makes mother happy and calm and evil is what makes her angry; thus the moral conscience of the child is born.
In the following article you will find more information about moral values and ethical values.
Defining Family Values for Children
Family values are all those recommendations that our parents have given us at certain times; recommendations on how we should behave with our friends, family and neighbors, they are also all the advice they give us on how to face the things that worry us, make us sad or upset.
Many times family values guide us to respect any living being (schoolmates, friends, siblings, cousins, teachers, animals, nature and with any other person we know), that attitude of respect that family values teach us allows us to accept and we promote the freedom of every living being.
List of family values
The most important family values are the following:
- Solidarity.
- Respect.
- Tolerance.
- Empathy.
- Resilience.
- Honesty.
- Courage.
- Responsibility.
- Gratitude.
- Goodness.
- Trust.
- Justice.
- Freedom.
- Compassion.
- Conviction.
- Modesty.
- Humility.
- Patience.
- Discipline.
- Sorry.
- Independence.
- Loyalty.
- Altruism.
- Commitment.
- Perseverance.
- Self-control.
- Friendship.
- Doubt.
- Passion.
- Love.
Examples of family values
We must identify that family values teach us to live not only with our peers, because without a doubt we are not all the same. Here are some examples of how to apply family values in our lives:
- Solidarity and equity, as we describe - we are not all the same - we know that a child who has grown up in a very remote community of the city (only with few services at home such as electricity and water), this child will be relatively limited in some aspects in relation to another that has grown up in the metropolis (with some other services and accesses that facilitate its development); Both children, despite the differences in their performance (social, academic, emotional, cognitive and others), show the same interest in growing up, therefore solidarity guides us towards supporting the interests of both. A child who learns that there will be notable differences in people will know that this does not correspond to the exception of the practice of family values.
- Gratitude, the learning of this family value is observed, for example, in those moments where the child is instructed in the corresponding social skills - especially in the recognition of how important a person is and their efforts - orienting them to the practice of verbal gestures and corporal (a hug, a handshake and its corresponding articulation).
- Empathy, an example from childhood on this family value is the frequent attitude of the child when observing one of his classmates or a little brother cry and he approaches to ask - What is wrong with him? - and maybe also a pat on the head or on the back. Empathy allows the human being - and in this case the child - to try to understand the affective life and everything else that happens in the people, events and animals that surround them.
- Friendship, from childhood we must be able to learn the value of friendship, mutual affection and loyalty that comes from contact with the other.
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Bibliography- Maria Ramos. (2000). To educate in values. theory and practice. UC Edition.