Some parents don’t expect their kids to participate in household management: they feel that providing 100% of every<\/em> aspect of food, clothing and shelter is an important way parents can help children feel loved and secure.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Others believe that helping kids get comfortable with home management skills a little at a time is an excellent way to help them grow and become more independent. \u00a0They feel:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n And if you’re not sure which end of that spectrum makes sense to you <\/span><\/span><\/strong>gradually get kids to participate in household chores without adding “Nag Kids About Chores” to your already-full “to do” list? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Lots of people like a chore chart but find it gets stale. \u00a0What if part of the process was allowing kids to choose their tasks for the week? <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Another helpful hint? \u00a0What about a short checklist to help kids know what constitutes successful completion of the task? \u00a0A job description of sorts. \u00a0(This also seems to take a little of the sting out for parents with very high housekeeping standards.)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Sure it can be easier just to take care of things ourselves… but what’s the long-term value of helping kids if learning to balance “house jobs” \u00a0with the rest of life?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How can you get some help around the house without adding “nag kids about chores” to your already full to-do list? And, is it a good idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[66,67,375,599],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-foundations","tag-chore-chart","tag-chores","tag-parent","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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