10 tips from Don Bosco to parents

1. Enhance your child. When respected and respected, the young person progresses and matures.

2. Believe in your child. Even the most "difficult" young people have kindness and generosity in their hearts.

3. Love and respect your child. Show him clearly that you are at his side, looking him in the eye. We belong to our children, not them to us.

4. Praise your child whenever you can. Be honest: who among us doesn't like a compliment?

5. Understand your child. The world today is complicated and competitive. Change every day. Try to understand this. Maybe your son needs you and is just waiting for your gesture.

6. Rejoice with your child. Like us, young people are attracted to a smile; cheerfulness and good humor attract children like honey.

7. Get close to your child. Live with your son. Live in its environment. Get to know his friends. Try to know where it goes, with whom it is. Invite him to bring friends home. Participate amicably in your life.

8. Be consistent with your child. We do not have the right to demand attitudes from our children that we do not have. Those who are not serious cannot demand seriousness. Those who do not respect cannot demand respect. Our son sees all this very well, perhaps because he knows us more than we know him.

9. Prevention is better than punishing your child. Those who are happy do not feel the need to do what is not right. Punishment hurts, pain and resentment remain and separate you from your son. Think two, three, seven times before chastising. Never angrily. Never.

10. Pray with your child. At first it may seem "strange", but religion needs to be nourished. Those who love and respect God will love and respect others. When it comes to education, religion cannot be put aside.