It is not easy to get your children to learn how to involve themselves into household chores obligingly.
Kids and teens are lazier compare to our days.
When I was younger, I had to learn to sweep the floor, wash the dirty dishes, hang out the clean laundry and help mom to prepare the ingredients for meals.
These generation, you could hardly hear your kids offer a helping hand to help you out with household chores even though they saw you busy cleaning up the house while they idle themselves with unimportant chores ( watching TV, surfing the Internet, playing game consoles, sending text messages with smartphone, etc)
Toddlers, by their natural nature, they started out by dressing themselves, learn hoe to brush teeth , imitating the steps of their older siblings.
They are full of amazement while enjoy performing their duties faithfully daily.
When they are older, children will start to imitate mother actions which they watched how she performs the household chores daily without fail.
Sweeping the floor, putting things away are exciting and fun for them but not for grown ups.
It is vital for parents to allow kids to involve themselves with household chores because they (children) still want to have a part in important jobs.
Fill them with the feeling of pride and joy, being part of the team that their role is equally appreciated as other older siblings too.
Both your children and you ( parents) will feel pleased with the chores done quickly and in harmony.
Parents should give out instructions clearly , precise and briefly.
Do not give lengthy and continuous instructions because your children cannot embrace all-in-1 tasks with their minimal ability.
If you want your child to clean his own bedroom, tell him to start from keeping his toys. When he is done with it, tell him to make his bed and then another task. Make sure that one task at a time is done before giving him the next task.
Teach your children to communicate with you.
Ask questions when they do not understand your instructions.
If you notice that your child keeps nodding his head , obviously, he hasn’t catch the ball yet.
Most of us parents couldn’t deny that we had not brought up our children well.
The incompetent behavior and attitude, unable to get full co-operation at all times , unable to accomplish minor household chores assigned to them, let us down with least expectation.
In order for our children to be competent, parents had to teach them from young age how to complete a simple task with explaination and show how the task is done by doing it yourself.
When my son couldn’t understand how the chore is done, he will watch how I perform it and asked whether he understood. Do it half-way and give him the chance to complete the rest of the chore under supervision.
A child who is competent bears the right attitude of learning and understanding.
You cannot expect your children to be responsible about their duties even they are school age children, not to mention about teenagers.
Most teenagers fail to compromise about accepting responsibilities as older siblings, setting the right examples to their younger siblings.
Hence, Children have to be reminded at interval times, not every minute with constant nagging.
Nobody could stand nagging tone of parents, not even the spouse either!
Talk to each of your child his responsibilities and his contribution to the family.
Each person responsibilities are different from each other, depending on the status and the role position.
Every child has to be responsible for the tasks given, to act them out in order to contribute to the family chores and stress.
Children should have initial obligations in helping out with household chores since young.
Give them the sense of dignity, happiness and pride in helping out parents.
Use politeness, not belittling your children when asking for help.
It helps a lot if you could assign a big household chore where your children learn how to share their duties in order to complete it at a speicific time.
Sharing jobs isn’t easy for children who are bickering with each other, jealous over the task given ( which is easier or difficult to do).
Teach them how to take turns, give in and take, negotiate and share the rewards among each other when chore is done.
Sharing is happiness, where everyone gets to enjoy the fruit of labor.
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When I was a kid, like about 7 to 8 years, I was always involve in most of the house chores I can't even do today am grown.
When I was of that age, my mother would come back from the market, I would leave everything I was doing, carry her bags, look for what to cook and start preparing them. When she came to the kitchen, she would be happy that her work has been done a bit. She will just do the cooking.
Then I never mind if my siblings were doing anything. I took pleasure doing it alone just to gain my parents praises.
On Saturday morning then, I will sweep the house, scrub the floor, scrub the kitchen floor, fetch water and do other things without complaining. I learnt a whole lot when I was a kid. Although I don't do them any longer now because my siblings are all grown now,I still know how to do them with ease.
But some of my friends then didn't bother to help their parents, they just relax and their parents did everything for them and give them food as well.
In most cases, most parents take their children so special and employ made to work for their children. They do not want anything to their children but indirectly they are harming their children to the core. When their children grow to adult, they will be very lazy and still expect maids to come work for them.
The very importance of household chores to children is to enable them know how to do things and also how to be independent when on their own.
If a child is being served by a maid always, he would be very dirty especially if he stays 1 to 2 weeks away from homes. Why?
Because he wouldn't know how to work his clothes, take his bath, brush his teeth and other things.
The children when grown will suffer humiliation from the laughter of their mates especially when they are unable to do what their mates are doing.
This tags them the weekend vessels by their friends.
Yes, children at make mischief and that is why the children must keep must with work at home so that they could use their energies positively and it whelps the children in coming years.
I used many of these easy activities as a way to keep the older kids busy when I was pregnant with Louis. I had been thinking about how in the world am I going to preoccupy the kids when the baby needs to be fed, or changed, or just needs all the attention that a baby needs!
Which is why I was on a mission to find lots of activities for keeping kids busy with minimal effort on my part. I had tried all sorts of activities but fail.
Use these tricks to keep busy your children as
Measuring Cups. Simply a set of measuring cups can come in handy! Throw them in a bowl with some big spoons and they can mix something up for you!
Pots & Pans. Along the same lines as the measuring cups, pots and pans are great too! Let them mix and match the lids or stir something up for dinner.
Plastic Cups. Leftover plastic cups from a birthday party (or two or three)? Just hand a stack to your toddler. They’ll find something to do with them.
Pipe Cleaners. Add a colander or a strainer of some sort with big enough holes to fit pipe cleaners through and let your child poke the pipe cleaners through the holes. You could also use a spice container with large enough holes to fit the pipe cleaners through!
Tupperware. Let your toddler raid your Tupperware drawer. Stacking up the bowls will be fun enough, but they can even match up lids to their counterparts. And then take them apart and start over again
Research shows that children learn in many ways about family relationships and how their family functions. Being involved in household chores is one way they can learn.
When children contribute to family life, it also helps them feel competent and responsible. Sharing housework can minimize stress in a family. Getting kids involved in chores helps the family work better.