10 commandments of Janusz Korczak for parents

Janusz Korczak is an outstanding Polish educator, writer, physician and public figure who refused to save his life three times.

The first time this happened, when Janusz decided not to emigrate to Palestine before the occupation of Poland, so as not to leave the "House of Orphans" to the mercy of fate on the eve of terrible events.

The second time - when he refused to flee the Warsaw ghetto.

And in the third - when all the inhabitants of the "House of Orphans" had already climbed into the train car, sent to the camp, an SS officer approached Korchak and asked:
"Did you write" King Mathiusha "?" I read this book as a child. Good book. You can be free.
- What about children?
"The children will go." But you can leave the car.
- You are mistaken. I can not. Not all people are scoundrels.

A few days later in the concentration camp Treblinka heTogether with the children from the "House of Orphans" entered the gas chamber. On his way to his death, Korczak held the two smallest children in his arms and told a fairy tale to unsuspecting kids.

This stunning man made 10 principles of raising children, which are worth knowing to everyone:

• Do not expect your child to be like you or whatever you want. Help him to become not you, but yourself.
• Do not ask the child to pay for everything you did for him. You gave him life, how can he repay you? He will give life to another, he to the third, and this is an irreversible law of gratitude.
• Do not take offense on your child, so that in old age, there is no bitter bread. For whatsoever you sow, it will ascend.
• Do not take his problems down. Life is given to everyone according to their strengths, and be sure - to him it is as hard as you, and maybe even more, because he has no experience.
• Do not humiliate!
• Do not forget that the most important meetings of a person are his meetings with children. Pay more attention to them - we can never know who we meet in the child.
• Do not torment yourself, if you can not do something for your child, just remember: the child has not done enough, if not everything is done.
• A child is not a tyrant who takes possession of allyour life, not only the fruit of flesh and blood. This is the precious cup that Life has given you for the storage and development of creative fire in it. This is the liberated love of the mother and father, who will not grow "our", "their" child, but the soul given for safekeeping.
• Know how to love someone else's child. Never do to someone else what you do not want to do to yours.
• Love your child by anyone - untalented, unsuccessful, adult. Communicating with him - rejoice, because the child is a holiday that is still with you.