Values

Unfortunately, this week I got sick with COVID and all my roommates too, but the positive side is that we were able to hang out and chat with each other about our classes and about the new things we are learning. We talk about our families how we were brought up in different ways and how even our younger siblings are being brought up in different ways. Talking about this, I realized how all families and people have different values and that these values change over time.

Listening to people on the street and observing their responses and attitudes, we could venture to say that education in our society is changing, and this is large since current values ​​are different from those we were taught. We live in a society in which easy success and money prevail, personal values ​​cannot be linked only to material things. Many parents have delegated this responsibility to education at school, which can be a mistake.

Values ​​and education are taught and learned at home. We should all do a reflection exercise to determine what values ​​we want to teach our families and how we can transmit them.

We need to share these values ​​to follow the same line in family education, given that values ​​are somewhat of a guide. Many of the things we learn are by imitation. Every act has a consequence, and we are responsible for them, let's not leave something as important as education in values ​​to chance, to the environment, to television, or to school.

Values ​​are essential to developing ourselves as people and we must ensure that they are in harmony and shared by all family members (at least those we value as most important). Values ​​allow us to know where to direct our goals and purposes and reflect our interests, our feelings, and our needs.

There are different types of values, there are neither good nor bad. Each family and person have their own, the only important thing is to know what they are and if they are aligned with how we behave, which is what we value most in ourselves and in others. There are many groups of values, including spiritual values, moral values, universal values, etc.

Personal values ​​are those that we consider essential to build our lives and be in harmony with our principles.

Family values ​​are what each family values ​​and establishes as good and bad. They normally derive from the beliefs held by the parents and will become principles and guidelines for the children. These are the values ​​related to honesty, sincerity, harmony, fun, and perseverance.

Not knowing or not having a clear priority regarding values ​​can cause problems in the education of children. For example, if I value “honesty” and my partner values ​​“success” above all else, then we will approach education very differently, and that is where the work we must do as educators begin. A balance must be sought between the personal values ​​of each party and understanding their importance of them. What values ​​do you want to give more importance to? conflict with each other or are they complementary? How can we pass them on to our families?

We live in a society that creates "anti-values" where lies, intolerance, irresponsibility, dishonesty is justified to achieve, for example, personal values ​​such as success, acceptance, power, or recognition. It is very important to work with each other since our society often uses the premise that: "the end justifies the means" and often this premise can turn against us.

All families and people have different values that may have been created by different situations, however, we must understand that values are born and taught at home.