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Common Mistakes in Family Education

One of the most common mistakes parents make is to not accept their children as an individual. Failing to admit that children are individuals can also cause for parents to find their children's behaviors strange and wrong even if they are not. In this case, what we do is to personalize our children with our characters, not their personal characters. Moreover, we see it as a kind of education. Such an education method will have a negative impact on child and lead to personality problems so the academic life of the child will be affected too. Be careful, it is important to know that it is not about to interfere in the wrong behaviors, it is about unnecessary interventions should be avoided.
To be over concerned and to see the outside world as a threat for the child affects the social development in children negatively. Especially, thinking your child's close circle of friend will hurt your child and so preventing your child's socialization may cause him/her to become an asocial individual. However, the people are social individuals and also needs to be social. Social development in children is an important issue for success in education.
It is a huge mistake that when parents wish their children would live their dreams which have never come true. For example, we often see that a father who could not have been a lawyer although he wanted a lot try to convince his child to be a lawyer and other similar kind of stories. Each individual has its own unique qualifications and interests. Children are also individuals and their areas of interests must be discovered and they should be directed to those interests.
It is also not good to not take care of children, make them feel that you do not love them enough, and let children control everything. Parents should check that their children fulfill their responsibilities. Children should be supported in both preschool period and school age period. Those could be checking their assignments, doing educational activities together, helping their tasks and so on.
It is not right to compare children with their friends and peers. The only comparison can be made to check whether everything is okay with the development of the child. The comparison should be based on every child at that age, not on a person. Also, the child does not have to be aware of this comparison. At the same time, it is not true that if this comparison would be accusing or too much encouraging for children. Every child has different interests and personality. It cannot be expected that children would not be themselves as long as you compare them with someone else.
Finally, it is one of the biggest mistakes that parents do not question themselves when they faced with child's failures but instead they look for mistakes that the children might have made.

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