Teaching Responsibility with Chores
By giving your children chores to do, you
are teaching responsibility as well as teaching them to be productive members
of the family. Get children involved with the process of choosing which chores to
do. This will encourage your child and give him the feeling of self importance.
Here are seven helpful tips for teaching
responsibility with chores:
1. Start teaching your child at a young age to be responsible. Do
not do anything for your child that he can do for himself.
2. Teach your child to pickup after each activity. Enforce this when
she asks for something--especially when he is done playing with his toys.
3. Get children involved in the process of doing chores by allowing
them to help with choosing the chores that they feel they can do.
4. Let your child help place the chart on the refrigerator in a
spot where they would like it to go.
5. Teach children the joy of self-evaluation and a job well done
instead of dependence on rewards. Children love the satisfaction of placing the
completed stickers on their chart.
6. Always praise your child for a job well done when a chore is
completed! Tell the child "good job!, ” not "good boy"!
7. If your child does something on his own (without you asking him
to do it) make sure you tell your child that you like it when he does this.
This will encourage more of this behavior.
Will Barnes
www.yourconsultantsite.com