Your Kids Learn How to Act… From You

Here’s the hard truth: your kids learn how to treat people by watching you. If
you’re an asshole to everyone, your kids will learn to be assholes too.
If every drive, every checkout line, every conversation is “forget that
guy” and drama, that becomes their normal. Decades of research on
social learning show that kids copy what they see, from how we talk to
how we handle anger and frustration.
Children are master mimics. When adults model swearing, aggression, and
“everyone’s an idiot” energy, kids soak it up and replay it with
friends, siblings, and strangers. If you want your kids to be kind and
respectful, it starts with you changing how you talk and act. They will do what you do, not what you say.
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