Building Leadership in Children
By: Fendy Dc
Tags: Family, Self, Leadership, Education, Parenting

Building Leadership in Children

Routines that make children have a leadership attitude

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If someone has a good foundation, then they will have the confidence to be a leader.

Since childhood, children need to be trained to have a leadership attitude. The age of children is the right character building phase to train leadership. Training children to have a leadership attitude aims to prepare children to become leaders. Leadership isn’t only about the position to lead others, but leadership is a personal character.

Children who can become leaders themselves will be able to lead others.

A leader isn’t only for men, but women also have the same rights to become leaders. Therefore, we must encourage children to become leaders regardless of gender.

I rarely see companies have CEOs who are young. This phenomenon shows a young man needs to be trained to have a leadership attitude. Moreover, many leaders in the government have become corruption suspects. This is proof that leadership attitudes must be trained properly. Training leadership needs a long process to produce good character. A leader who is involved in corruption is’n successful in the process of training leadership.

Life is about investing time in worthwhile activities.

The leadership attitude is’n obtained in an instant. Leadership is a series of interconnected attitudes that form strong character. Leaders aren’t just about personality. You have a lot to teach children. The best time to start building a leadership attitude is through routine.

Leader character

Leaders must have a strong character to control all responsibilities. Being a leader isn’t easy. It is a set of attitudes that must be built from childhood to grow into a great leader. Leadership has three qualities that must be possessed:

Personality — The leader must have a good personality so that it can be an inspiration for company members. Leaders must have a courageous attitude, have good communication, be honest, respect the opinions of others and be humble.

— The leader must have a good personality so that it can be an inspiration for company members. Leaders must have a courageous attitude, have good communication, be honest, respect the opinions of others and be humble. Ability — The leader must-have skills that are useful for managing the organization. The capabilities that must be possessed are organizing, staffing, directing, commanding and controlling.

— The leader must-have skills that are useful for managing the organization. The capabilities that must be possessed are organizing, staffing, directing, commanding and controlling. Capability — The leader must be able to carry out activities without feeling excessive fatigue.

Build habits through routine

Children love to do activities that make them happy. As parents, we should take advantage of these opportunities to build leadership attitudes through fun routines. If children feel happy, then they will be willing to do the parents’ orders.

When carrying out orders, it must be explained the benefits of the activity being carried out. Below are activities so that children have a leadership spirit:

Solve problems with cooperation

Activities that are completed together will be completed quickly.

You have to train children to solve problems cooperatively. During cooperation, many activities can be used as lessons. These activities are learning to socialize with team members, respecting differences of opinion, and finding solutions to problems.

If the children are used to collaborating, they will think that problems aren’t burdens that they have to think about on their own.

For example, you can train cooperation by playing puzzle games.

Setting Priorities

Every activity has different conditions. Some activities must take precedence and some activities can be postponed.

You must teach children to determine the priority of each activity. All activities should be identified to see which order is more important. Learning to determine priorities aims to train children to carry out activities in an organized manner and plan well.

Guide the child to see the purpose of each activity. After that, invite the children to discuss to determine the activities that must be completed.

Write a plan in a diary

Many activities can be done every day. Everything will be in vain if not used.

You must teach children to plan for tomorrow. Developing a plan will train your child to learn to take advantage of time and plan for the future. Having no plan can confuse humans and waste time.

So that children can always organize their plans, you can ask them to write plans in a diary. Example you can make vacation and camping plans.

Maintain physical and mental health

Without taking care of physical and mental health, it makes humans like statues that can’t move.

Children need to be trained to care about mental and physical health. As parents, you need to train them to exercise regularly, eat healthy, and get adequate rest.

Try to help children to have an ideal body by controlling their weight and maintaining healthy teeth. This method is useful for fostering a sense of care about appearance. Also, children must have principles if family is the top priority. This principle aims so that children aren’t greedy with work and position

You can make an exercise schedule with your family to maintain a healthy body.

Proactive Attitude

God created the mouth to speak, the hands to move and the brain to think. If you choose passive, it will make a loss.

You need to teach children to actively respond to everything that happens in their life. Activities that need to be trained are moving, answering questions, asking questions, giving opinions and making choices. This activity is useful so that children actively use all their abilities.

Proactive children will always appear confident to face new things in their life. Having a proactive attitude will make their presence a strength.

Everyone has a different response, but it will be useless if not expressed. This happens because they don’t have a proactive attitude.

To practice a proactive attitude, you can regularly invite communication to tell events that have happened and ask for opinions.

Always thinking of winning

Hope will make children motivated.

You have to give hope to the children in every activity. Like doing assignments, learning to ride a bicycle, competing in a race. Hope will motivate children to finish.

Every activity must have obstacles that can make you despair. You need to teach children to cross obstacles without scaring them. Make the children think that they can be the winner of every activity.

You can continue to provide hope in every activity that is being done. In the future, there will be victories.

Mutual respect

Difference is beauty. There is nothing wrong with the difference. Difference is a natural way of social relations.

You have to teach children to appreciate differences. As a parent, you must teach difference as beauty. If you find a difference, you must appreciate it.

Children must be trained to listen to other people’s opinions. Also, it isn’t allowed to interrupt other people who have different opinions