By Rojina Kandel
A role model is someone who serves as an example and someone who others look up to, often as someone worthy of imitation. People have role models at all stages of their lives, but role models are usually most impressionable on children and younger people. Despite people thinking of role models as celebrities, sports stars and other notable figures, they can also be closer to home. Many people call one or both of their parents or carers role models. Role models give children their most important life lessons, with their actions having a profound influence over us. The fact that role models are most impressionable on children and young people is at the very core of why they are so important.
In an interview global sensation, Priyanka Chopra Jonas had told that she wants to become and live as a role model for her daughter Malti and wants to make her daughter Malti and wants to make her daughter feel proud of her when her daughter grows up Priyanka likes to become as her daughter should say, look she is my mom. It has been said that women act as first teachers in every child’s life and if we observe this above-mentioned fact, it’s true also cause a mother teaches her child after birth how to walk, how to eat with a knife and fork, how to talk, how to tie shoelaces, mother also helps children to learn to read and she demonstrates how a child should behave and so many things that a child needs to learn for surviving smartly in this beautiful world. Mothers thought patterns and ways of behaving are often unconsciously transmitted to children- mothers are their role models, as children copy behavior, both the good and the bad and learn how to conform to stereotypes.
In the family older children are watching and learning how to manage their money, in particular, they will be looking at their mother as their role model. Parents’ job is to prepare their children to be independent adults.
Following are the ways that a mother can be a money role model for their older children:
1)Set a positive example by talking about money openly.
2) Share your good habits with them, for instance by telling them you can’t buy that handbag until you have paid next month and all the household bills, and if there’s money left then, you may treat yourself.
3) Help them to understand money management, by encouraging them to spend some of their pocket money, but also saving some.
4) Take them shopping with you to help them understand the value of things and just how much it costs to feed the family.
5) Learn to say no to ‘treats’ explaining how money must be used on essentials first, don’t let them have everything they want, this helps them teach the value of money.
6) Talk to older children about your income, taxes and paying essential bills, each month show them the details and how you budget each month, so, you don’t run out of money.
In this way being a good money role model for your Children will lead them to develop positive habits around money which they will take into their adult lives.
On the other hand, one of the best ways women can be role model to their children is they can instil values in their children through books like Gita, Bible, etc. So, as God is a God of equality, and the more we plumb the depth of these rich stories from scripture, the more we will discover excellent role models for our children.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.
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