Why is Good Behavior Necessary for the New Year
Characters of Character is about helping children understand, internalize and embrace these traits. Let’s start the year with a strong foundation and encourage good behavior with Behavior Bear!
Good behavior is especially important as we enter a new year as it sets the tone and values that shape everything that follows. A new year is a fresh start, and positive behavior helps turn that fresh start into lasting growth.
These are a few reasons why good behavior matters at the beginning of the year and encouraged all year long!
1. Good behavior helps build strong habits at an early age
What we practice repeatedly becomes routine. Starting the year with kindness, respect, responsibility, and self-control helps those behaviors become natural over time, especially for children who are still forming lifelong habits.
2. Good behavior creates positive relationships
Good behavior encourages cooperation, trust, and empathy. When people treat others well, classrooms, families, and communities become safer, happier places to grow and succeed for a lifetime!
3. Good behavior supports emotional and social growth
Positive behavior helps children manage emotions, resolve conflicts, and communicate effectively. These skills are essential for confidence and success throughout the year and for a lifetime of growth and learning.
4. Good behavior sets clear expectations and goals
The new year often comes with resolutions and goals. Good behavior helps children understand expectations, stay focused, and take responsibility for their actions as they work toward those goals.
A new year is the perfect time to reinforce core values like respect, perseverance, gratitude, and kindness. These values guide decisions long after the excitement of “new beginnings” fades. Personally, I don’t make resolutions, I decided long ago that because it is so easy to break your resolution because they are hard to keep, let’s face it! After a month we’re off the diet, eating sugar, exercising daily, etc. For most I feel this is true. Therefore, I hold myself to a higher standard of being the best I can be each day, to try harder, to do my best and learn from the day. This way, tomorrow may come around and I have not disappointed myself or others knowing that I truly tried my best.
When your child understands what it means to have good behavior, that there may be consequences if they don’t and that there are rules to be followed will enhance their yearning to have good behavior. Not only for themself, but knowing that it is the right thing to do! As always, you should be a role model for your child, encourage your child and always keep the door open to communicate with your child.
Teaching good behavior is easy to start and powerful over time when it’s positive, consistent, and engaging. It’s less about correcting mistakes and more about guiding children toward making good choices on their own. Have the talk, read some books, draw some pictures and always talk about it! Learn more about Behavior Bear here.
Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I remember, Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin and Miss Joni’s favorite quote!