Who Has The Most Influence On A Child?
Who Has The Most Influence On A Child?
We all aim to live our authentic life however it is very hard to live in the world today without being affected and influenced by a whole lot of external factors that we choose to expose ourselves to daily.
I believe children are by far the most easily influenced. You may be asking yourself who has the most influence on a child?
Parents tend to have the most influence on a child. What you see, hear, and experience as a child has a big influence on your identity, perspective, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, words, behavior, habits, and eventual destiny.
The parenting style that you were exposed to as a child will also influence how well you can function in society. Children who have experienced authoritarian, permissive, or uninvolved parenting styles will be less able to cope with life pressures, frustrations, and challenges.
They are also are more likely to suffer from addictions and different mental health challenges like depression and anxiety.
So, you may be wondering next, can parents also influence their children’s personality traits? Let’s find out the answer to that question.
Can Parents Influence Personality Traits
Yes, parents can influence their child’s personality traits. The personality of a child is formed by the physical environment, the culture they grow up in, genes that they inherited from their parents, and experiences that they have as a child.
Children see their parents as their role models and therefore want to please them and be loved by them, be just like them, and do whatever they do.
They learn to speak, behave, and act in ways that get them the most love and praise and the least amount of punishment and rejection.
As children grow up and venture outward in society at large, their personality is also then influenced by their peers, teachers, and social media channels that they are exposed to.
As you can see, having the role of a parent is one of the most important and greatest responsibilities that you can ever take on and be given. Make sure you take the time to express gratitude for this beautiful gift often.
Let’s discuss next the 8 things parents often forget to be grateful for.
8 Things Parents Often forget To be Grateful For
Most parents get so busy and caught up in their day-to-day hectic life schedule as they raise their children that they forget to take the time to express gratitude for this very important role.
Here are 8 things that parents often forget to be grateful for.
Blessing
Be grateful for the blessing that you’ve been given which is a gift of a child because there are so many people who do not get that blessing even though it is one of their deepest desires to become a parent.
Make sure you take the time to express your gratitude to your creator and your child for being granted this privilege. Take the time to tell your child often also how grateful you are to have them in your life because we often forget to tell the people that we are grateful for the most.
Responsibility
Be grateful that your creator has entrusted you with the great responsibility of being a parent and raising a child. Always remember your children come through you however they do not belong to you. They belong to your creator and are here to fulfill a purpose.
You have been entrusted with the responsibility of raising them as your creator would with a full awareness of the fact that they are a powerful soul with a body, are enough, and are here on this earth temporarily to fulfill a purpose.
Honor
Be grateful and honored that your child’s soul chose your soul to be in a parent’s body. It is not an accident that the child is in your life.
Your child’s soul came into your life either to learn from you and grow or to teach you so your soul can grow or both.
Be very grateful and honored also if you’ve been blessed with a child that’s in any way challenged or experiencing any challenges like autism or down syndrome.
Know that your creator has trusted you with raising a child like that so your soul can grow or the child’s soul has come into your life to help your soul grow.
Do not ever lose hope and know without a doubt that as challenging and stressful as it is to raise such a child you are being trusted because you have the strength, wisdom, and ability to raise this child.
Role Of A Guide
Be grateful that you can influence, shape, and guide your child toward a better impactful, and meaningful future. Take the time to make them feel seen, heard, understood, and accepted.
What we see, hear, and experience as a child becomes part of our subconscious mind, programming and it influences all our decisions in life without us being conscious. It creates our reality, truth, and world.
Learning
Be grateful for the opportunity to learn lessons and grow as a parent. Always be open to learning from your children and do not feel that just because you are in a parent body and your child is here to learn from you.
I am a parent to two children and they’re very different and they both teach me different lessons. I know that I have been given these specific children so that I can learn and grow in the areas that I need to in a certain way.
Healing
Be grateful for the opportunity to heal and develop. You may be used to doing things a certain way because of your childhood which may come into question. You may have to heal your wounds from your childhood, and past so you can grow and be a better parent.
Be open to that and don’t be so stuck in your ways and be aware of your subconscious mind which was probably programmed when you were a child.
More Conscious Life
Be grateful for the opportunity to live a more conscious life. You will know exactly what experiences not to create that will affect and influence your children negatively that you perhaps may have experienced in your childhood.
You will also be excited to consciously create experiences for your children that made you happy and that you cherished as a child.
More Compassionate Life
Be grateful for being given a chance to live a compassionate, loving, joyful, and fun life that is in alignment with your soul as a parent. Compassion, love, and joy are all true qualities of your soul.
Children teach you how to love unconditionally and how it feels to be compassionate. You will take care of your baby because you love them and feel a lot of compassion toward them.
In conclusion, you now know parents tend to influence their children the most. What you see, hear and experience as a child has a big influence on your identity, perspective, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, words, behavior, habits, and destiny of the child.
Parents can also influence their child’s personality traits. The personality of a child is formed by the physical environment they exposed to, the culture they grow up in, genes that they inherit from their parents, and experiences that they have as a child.
We also discussed that most parents get so busy and caught up in their day-to-day hectic life schedule as they raise their children that they forget to take the time to express gratitude for this very important role that they have been granted.
8 things that parents often forget to be grateful for are the blessing and gift of a child, the responsibility of raising a child, the honor to be chosen as a parent, the role of a guide, learning, healing, more conscious, and compassionate life.
Next, why is a parent-child relationship important read for further insights and tips.