Educate in Being or Have?
The education of a child is an attractive work, challenging and demanding. Any situation is good to instill values and virtues. In this educational process should be a question: I am educated in be … or have?
Educate counter
Although not an easy task to educate counter within a society that promises happiness through material source media and unattainable beauty stereotypes, is not a mission impossible.
The most convenient and easy it is to get carried away by the current fashion in education of children, since there is no resistance from anyone. But doing so can produce a loose and baseless training firm.
There are many parents who want to paddle in the opposite direction of the current, though more difficult, but with better results.
To form into being, should teach children and teenagers to stand up for what they are and not what they have. This must be repeated repeatedly let it clear that the material is added, it is not part of its essence.
It is natural to children and even teenagers, to be compared with their peers and make display of material goods or physical beauty they possess the other, which can generate in them a feeling of disrespect and inferiority. When this occurs, one must intervene immediately, parents should work to strengthen self-esteem and other values that teach the children that their worth as a person is not comparable with any other human being.
Parents, the best psychologists
It’s sad, regrettable and also worrying to see children and youth with very complex problems such as anorexia and bulimia, suicide attempts, unwanted pregnancies, harassment and/or school dropouts, among many others, which remain in the background, a lack of values that were not administered at the time, as well as a lack of family support.
The family is the first and sole responsibility for the education of children is the teacher par excellence and it should start teaching values and the formation of integrated beings. There is no doubt that a family is the best antidote against these “evils.”
