Supply The Skills To Weigh Possibilities and Consequences Against Family Values
This can be a rather complicated feat, especially if the child is of a very young age. However a child who is able to appreciate the complexity of learning how to weigh possibilities and consequences against the family values in place, will eventually contribute to the child’s ability to make good and sound decision.
Provide The Skills
Before the actual decision making process commences, the child should already be school in the various family values that are currently part of the family makeup as a whole.
Understanding the family values early on in age will also help the child easily adopt decisions that will compliment these values thus creating less problems and friction within the family unit.
Setting good examples, which the child can follow, is also one way of getting the child to make decisions along the line of the family values in place.
Often children run into trouble when the decision they make are totally against the family values, thus causing a lot of problems for all parties involved.
It would be wise and certainly beneficial for the parent if from the very beginning all decisions made are only accepted if they are based on the family values.
Rejecting any decisions that are not in line with the family values will teach the child the boundaries he or she can work within and this will make it a lot easier to accept or reject ideas that will be pivotal in the decision making process.
It would be the responsibility of the parent to clearly outline all the various family values that the child would be expected to follow when it come to decision making. These should be done in a consistent and repetitive manner, so that the child will not be confused in any way and will be able to make acceptable decisions.