IB Learner Profile: Principled
The IB Learner profile aims to develop students who are principled. Students who are principled act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness, justice and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and communities. They take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences that accompany them.
How can parents help to develop students who are principled at home?
What you do as a parent matters. How you treat and respond to your child should come from a knowledgeable, deliberate sense of what you want to accomplish.
You cannot be too loving. It is simply not possible to spoil a child with love. What we often think of as the product of spoiling a child is never the result of showing a child too much love. It is usually the consequence of giving a child things in place of love.
Connect behavior to character.
Provide opportunities for your child to make their own decisions, discuss the consequences of their decisions.
Read and tell stories in which the story characters demonstrate making principled decisions.
Discuss how being principled is life long commitment and well sought after as a characteristic to have.
