Рассказывает Генри Клауд

Once at the seminar »How to Raise Successful Children» a woman asked me what the most important thing parents need to teach a child.

I was able to surprisingly quickly find the answer:

- I do not know whether it is possible here to confine something one »most important», but I can tell you the quality of one character, which should certainly be emphasized.

- What? - He asked his mother, waiting likely to hear arguments about such spiritual qualities as love, righteousness, faith, hope and obedience.

- Teach your child to submit to the loss. -What?

- Teach him to play.

- How is it, »Teach him to play?» I want my baby around was the first. For what reason I'm teaching him to play?

I told her:

- Because of his life waiting for the defeat. Better he learn this in advance.

»He was waiting for the defeat.» These words are the essence of our brief conversation, but the parents do not take the thought of this. Play we disliked - but who of us will escape this life? Safely distinguishes man from the loser is not the fact that he plays less, and that it is better able to play, meaning it retains the ability to live on, overcoming his loss. This is one of the most important qualities of character that you can instill in your child.