How to Be Responsible - HOW TO TEACH RESPONSIBILTY

 Assign chores

BIBLE PRINCIPLE: "There is a benefit in every kind of  hard work." - PROVERBS 14:23.

Young children are eager to work alongside their parents. You can take advantage of this natural inclination by assigning your children chores around the home. 

Some parents ar e reluctant to do that.  They reason that their school-age children  face a mountain of homework each day, so why add to their burden? 

However, children who do chores are more likely to succeed at school, since chores teach them to accept assignments and complete work tasks. Besides. notes the book Parenting Without Borders, "when we ignore our children's eagerness to participate when they  are younger, they internalize the idea that contributing is unimportant . . . They  also began to expect things will done for them." 

As that quote indicates, doing chores trains children to be contributors rather than consumers, givers rather than takers. Chores help children realize that the have a valued place in the family-and responsibility toward it.

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