sticking with it
Keep them active in sports or hobbies. Help them determine things that would make them happy. Ask then enrol them in it and make them stick it out if they don’t like it. Commitment is a value that I don’t see enough of these days. I think that it will make them more successful adults. That way when they grow older into their profession they will have the tenacity to stick to it.
One step further
Attending religious service will highly increase your children’s patience. If you are not religious try community service. I’m not a big fan of church however I do value the introspection it afforded me. I can be quiet, polite, and look interested for long period of times. These qualities I got from attending church. Volunteering (for free) was also a good way to show me loyalty and empathy. Try to have your children take actions that they will never receive any reward from.
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY
Let your children know what’s expected of them. Regularly give them a list of things to do and have them complete it. It’s so important we can not let our children determine for themselves to become lazy, apathetic and selfish. I think if everybody was let allowed their own choices we all would become undisciplined, just choosing to do mundane things to stare at our phones.
Be the adult
By letting your children make too many of their own decisions, you forget that they are for, in fact still children. If you let a child start making bad decisions at an early age, they will continue to make them for the rest of their life. Then are they gonna do when your not around to fix them?