Values are fundamental in the family, when we are raised in a family circle where values have been instilled since childhood, we can feel satisfied since we belong to a family where there is respect, understanding and communication between its members. This does not mean that they are a perfect family and that there will be no differences between them, but they have the necessary tools to overcome any obstacles that may arise.
There are parents who spend many hours away from home to earn more money in order to provide better things for their children. This is not bad, but you have to be very careful not to transform the real values of life into material exchanges. For example, when a child is young, he needs much more of something precious that his parents must give him: their time, their love, their company.
It is useless to be on the street all day, to arrive home tired and not share your time, which is your life, with your children. There are parents who, in their determined materialistic desire, sometimes without trying, create totally insensitive children, and instill in them that the true values of life are strictly material: money ... objects.
When the family is united and all the members decide to "earn a little less", but spend more time together (breakfast and dinner time, for example), enjoy entertaining games together, friendly conversations (no sermons!), of fun family activities, then increases understanding between all, love and togetherness. Thus, in difficult moments, the father can tell the son: this year I cannot buy what I promised you because I lost my job.
If parents have been consistent in their principles, and the time they spend with their children even if it is not much because the important thing is not quantity but quality is satisfactory and loving, the most likely reaction is that of an understanding child .. maybe even suggest "don't worry dad, these days I'm going to work nights in a coffee shop to earn some extra money ..."
The most important thing that should exist in a family is communication. Parents and children must communicate, and extend harmonious family ties to uncles and cousins, grandmothers and grandparents. Now, communication does not mean constantly preaching in theory. The best way to teach is by example. If at the table the family does not usually have good manners on a daily basis, it is absurd that they try to learn them when they go to eat at a restaurant. If there is no courtesy between all the members of the family, a loving treatment and respect, it is impossible that good communication can be established.
It is best to speak frankly with your child and explain the situation. When there is communication there is no reason to fear. Children are wary of parents who hide things from them, and also of those who waste money on liquor and unnecessary items and then claim they "have no money."
The timeshare, even if it is not much, must be one hundred percent full of attention and quality. An hour a day in the privacy of your home, when everyone loves each other, is better than several hours of misunderstandings and even fights. If time is short due to work pressures, you have to make sure that that time of the day spent at home is full of loving content and family integration.
Life is much more than cars, property, and money. There are people who have all this and are very unhappy because their state of inner turmoil, their anxieties and their excessive ambitions prevent them from enjoying what they have in those moments, such as the beauty of our planet Earth, which, after all, Fortunately, no one has bought. The best gifts: air, sun, water from rivers and seas, nature and life itself cost nothing. In them lie the true values, because if they did not have them, life would simply not exist.
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