Albert Bandura in his “Bobo doll” studies (1961) found that children who witnessed adults behave in a certain way towards a doll, behaved in the same manner when they were asked to play with the doll. Children who saw the adults play peacefully with the doll played peacefully with it, and children who witnessed the adults play aggressively with the doll played aggressively too. For further reading, click here for the full article.
Many times, we tell our children what to do, how to behave and what to say but we forget that kids learn best from what they see us DO and not from what we TELL them to do.
“Your children will become who you are; so be who you want them to be” – anonymous