Social skills are learned and help us navigate relationships all through life. They are an important part of a how to live curriculum beginning at the earliest ages on for kids of all abilities to the extent they can learn.

Constancy is holding to an ideal and an idea that is lofty and noble or just practical to be able to live in the smoothest way possible in family, community and society.

Constancy takes perseverance when faced with conflicting ways to act. We may be challenged in our goals and roles and noble ideas, but remaining constant to what we know as our Truth develops our personality and character. Constancy is a developer of the best film of life we have for others to see who we really are.

As with all early learning, especially, kids learn from their role models who are the people around them; parents and siblings, and then relatives, friends, school, communities. If we want our kids to learn to be constant in sticking to the highest ideals, then we must be that way at every opportunity.

If a parent is lax and not constant in any area the kids don't learn how to stick to the goals and ideals. It is most definitely a case of teaching by living what we want our kids to learn. It's like that with instilling any how to live social skill.

If we want our kids to get along well in society, constancy is a way that lets others trust who we are because it is seen we act on our values.

I enjoy certain tv show characters, notably Horatio in CSI Miami, because most often one of his last lines in an episode is an affirmation of some positive social skill that he lives, and reiterates that he will live to make someone's life better or safer.

An example for a child to learn about constancy is with homework assignments. Getting them done before playing computer games is one way that constancy develops and then can rub off into other aspects of living.

Parents, help your children learn to stick with getting the task done before playing so they develop the ability to self-regulate their actions. This social skill carries over into the teen years where pressures from peers may tempt them to act out in undesirable ways. And the ability to be constant in our affections and care as an adult is necessary to develop and maintain family life.

Article by Susan Kramer

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