Teaching your child responsibility Teaching your child responsibility Especially when they are young, children learn best about responsibility in concrete situations. What you do and how you interact on an everyday basis influuence your child. What they do and what they witness have lasting effects.
Children learn from seeing, hearing, and overhearing.
The best way to encourage your children to become responsible is to act as responsibly as you can in their presence. You must genuinely try to be the sort of people you hope they will try to become. You can show them by your words and by your actions that you respect others. You can show them your compassion and concern when others are suffering. They need to see your own self-control, courage, and honesty.