Many children believe that material inheritances—bank accounts, fields, villas, businesses, and other real estate—are the only valuable legacies their parents can leave them. But did you know that the most valuable inheritances are actually intangible? Here are the fifteen legacies you can leave your children
(1) WISDOM
Wisdom is not graded in schools, wisdom is acquired through life experiences. The best people to teach wisdom are the parents. Mentor your children, share with them your experiences, and don’t allow them to learn tough lessons through trial and error yet you can impart in them awareness that will make them wiser and go further than you.
(2) SOCIAL SKILLS
This is one of the most important inheritances you can give them because life is about relationships. Teach your children how to handle themselves, how to handle sisterhood and brotherhood, how to handle the opposite gender, how to choose the right company, how to make friends and keep friends, how to interact and socialize, and how to communicate. This will help your children as they leave your nest.
(3) HEALTHY VIEW OF FAMILY
If you damage your children’s view of marriage you might damage them for life. As a couple, model to them what a healthy couple looks like; the experiences at home shape the children’s romantic decisions. If you are a single parent, perhaps divorced or widowed, still speak honorably about marriage and family. Let your children know your experience doesn’t have to be their experience.
(4) GOOD MEMORIES
Childhood memories are what torment adults or keep adults going. Give your children moments they will treasure even after you are gone. Let your children testify, “There are good people in this world and they came in the form of my parents.”
(5) SOUND MENTAL HEALTH
The worst thing you can leave to your children is trauma. A lot of children receive trauma from their parents through insults, abuse, neglect, comparison, and rejection. Leave your children sound mental health by caring and loving them.
(6) A GOOD NAME
Leave your children a reputation that they will admire, and be great to the point your children will feel proud to be associated with you, to carry your name and to name their children after you.
(7) AN IDENTITY
You have the keys to your children’s identity. It is up to you to teach them about their family tree, who are their great grandparents, grandparents, uncles and aunties, and cousins, and how you two met as a couple. So that the children can continue the family lineage.
(8) FINANCIAL WEALTH
Your children will need money to build their own life; leave them assets, money, shares in companies or even a family business to run. In addition, teach them wealth management. Don’t let them struggle beyond measure. After all, you brought them into the world. You can train them to face the world, but not to make them suffer beyond measure.
(9) A LEGACY OF FAITH
Leave your children with the knowledge of God, and pray with them so that they build a prayerful lifestyle that will help them through life when you are not around. Teach them that as a parent, you have your limits, but God is their everything.Teach them all about our creator,his name, the purpose of life,God’s plan on humankind,and what does God ask us. It is better to be pious than to be immoral in this world.
(10) CONFIDENCE
Give your children self-belief; let them leave your hands with a better understanding of their purpose and an awareness of their greatness. Teach them to silence bullies and to push on when it gets tough.Tell your children often that they can do it, that where there’s a will, there’s a way, and that it’s worth trying. Tell them that even if you fail, you never lose; you either learn or you win.
(11) VALUES AND TRADITION
Transfer to your children good values and traditions to uphold, such as integrity, hard work, honesty, eating together as a family, and unity; so that they continue this on their own.
(12) A SUPPORT SYSTEM
Introduce your children to mentors, congregational leaders, family friends, books, teachers, communities, and social clubs that will enrich your children’s lives; you can only do so much as a parent, and some blessings will come in the other people and platform.
(13) Have integrity.
Always tell the truth. Lies are always found out.
(14) Have morals.
Don’t follow the wrong crowd. Don’t be intimidated into doing immoral things. Always take the high road.
(15) Help them to have critical thinking.
Teach them to do their own research on subjects and not to believe what news media pushes on them. It’s that person’s viewpoint, and it doesn’t mean it’s true because one person gave their opinion on something. The same is true with teachers and professors. Ask questions.
Remember, We are all the product of the previous generation; if we are a responsible person, our parents are responsible, too. These are the best tips for the next generation a healthy and respectful generation
This world,
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Interesting perspective—thanks for making me think.