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Spend quality time with a child. |
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Read to a child.
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Inconvenience Yourself™ is an easy way to reinforce values and morals with children. It also provides opportunities to grow your relationship with your child. Inconvenience Yourself™ is a way of living and can be implemented at home and school. Some suggested ways to incorporate Inconvenience Yourself™ at home are listed below. You can also present the idea to teachers and encourage them to include Inconvenience Yourself™ in their teaching and behavior management programs.
Things to Do With Your Child
- Give a hug
- Help with homework
- Spend time reading
- Play outside or get some exercise
- Talk about the day
- Help with Inconvenience Yourself™ art projects at home - drawings, sculptures, etc.
- Select an Inconvenience Yourself™ theme for the day and look for ways to implement with your child
- Volunteer for a cause with your child
- Talk about how both you and your child implemented Inconvenience Yourself™ during the day
- Plan how to implement Inconvenience Yourself™ tomorrow with your child
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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning
of education."
- John Ruskin |
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Things Parents Can Do
- Show respect
- Be trustworthy
- Be consistent
- Be patient
- Set a good example
- Be fair
- Say please, thank you, excuse me and I’m sorry
- Tell your child how proud you are of them
- Be a good citizen - obey laws, make good choices for the environment, vote
- Have a family dinner
- Help them make good choices
- Encourage healthy eating
- Foster financial responsibility - promote saving money
- Set appropriate boundaries
- Get involved in your child’s school
- Protect your child when they are online (internet)
- Be a role model
- When you make a mistake, be accountable, apologize and work to do better
- Teach values, including sharing, treating others right, taking responsibility
- Prepare financially for your retirement
- Take care of your own health
- Set up a rewards system based on the Inconvenience Yourself™ way of living
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We want you to share your stories with us. What are some things that you do to show
the Inconvenience Yourself™ way of living? Please send your stories to us by clicking HERE.
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