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I don’t know if I’m qualified as a father of three.

The most important point to raise children from my POV and experience is: mimétisme.

The very efficient way to teach or train them to adopt habit or behaviour is by personating yourself what you want them to be.

Children are copying what you are more than what you do.

Want them to love book ? Don’t buy them book and keep watching tv, play in front computer, or frenetically scroll your mobile. Just be a reader in front of them.

Want them to be curious, just be curious yourself… want them to clean and order their room, just clean your mess and order the house.

It’a all about that Your behaviour is the most important.

Leadership is not about enforcing things to other. But being the living example of the behaviour you want them to adopt.

Another important point from my POV, is learning and emotional context of the learning.

The more relaxed is the emotional context, the easier the learning will be easy and the skills will be able to be reused with ease in the futur.

Each time you use a skill in your life, your body also bring back the emotional context of the time of skill learning.

Learning is joy, not pain, not stress, not tension. And they start learning and never stop from the moment they are out of the mother’s belly.

It’s your responsability as a parent to enforce a relaxed and joyful environment in your house.

I could say far more, but I will stop here and wish you the best of luck. Congratulation for you and your wife being a parents.

For the first three years, I cannot recommend anything else than reading and practicing what explain this book : https://www.gentlerevolution.com/products/how-smart-is-your-...

If you have to buy one book this is this one.



> Leadership is not about enforcing things to other. But being the living example of the behaviour you want them to adopt.

This is so important it bears repeating. And I'll say it's not only true for parenting. Thank you for putting it this way!




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