A Job Well Done

A Job Well Done


We need to show our children that we take satisfaction in
acting properly and accomplishing difficult tasks.


What to do



1. Through your daily activities, show your children that you
care about a job well done.

2. Perhaps our children's most important tasks are to work
hard at school and do homework. When we check homework and
point out mistakes, we help them see how an error has
arisen. When we let them correct errors themselves, we
inspire self-confidence. It is also important for us to
show them that we appreciate their good efforts.

3. Teaching our children self-respect does not mean
complimenting everything they do. Our children also need
our honest criticism from time to time. When we do
criticize, it should be of things they have done, not them
personally.

4. Most of all, we should help our children form the
self-confidence and self-respect that come from
opportunities to do good work as students or as family
members.





Helping our children form self-respect is based on how we
treat them and our own example.

There are many opportunities to teach self-respect through
our actions:

Dad, nobody's going to see inside the model's wing. Why do
you work so hard with all those little pieces?

Because that's the right way to build the plane, Martha.
It makes the wing strong when the plane flies, and that's more
important than what people see. I want to make the best plane I
can. Do you want to help?