Teaching Responsibility

How do you teach your children responsibility?

Have you recently walked through your house picking up laundry, toys, electronics, and then carried out the overflowing kitchen trash or cleaned up the kitchen? Were you wondering why you are the only one who seems to notice the dog needs to be fed? I bet you were thinking to yourself, It is time to get the rest of the family involved in the daily operations of home and family. While most families have some shared responsibility system, it is common to need a little tune-up or reinforcement from time to time.

Earlier this month, we published a blog about stepping forward and leading our families, Four Ways To Reset Your Family. In that post, we talked about two concepts:

  1. establishing routines
  2. engaging everyone in the operation of the family

This week, we have produced a free resource for you and your family to help you achieve these two concepts. In Teaching Responsibility, we have provided a resource to help you train your children to participate in household chores starting as young as two and continuing through their teen years.

Chores meet an essential human emotional need—the need to feel needed.

As children learn to participate in the operation of their home, they recognize their valuable contribution to the family. It helps reduce their sense of entitlement when they better understand the effort required. And finally, when children are held accountable for completing regular chores, they are learning responsibility.

This new resource includes information about why assigning household chores is beneficial for you and your kids, a guide to age-appropriate activities, printable examples of family chore charts, and some additional resources to help get you started.

Download Teaching Responsibility and get started with your family today.

Author

  • Christine Clark

    Christine Clark is the Ministry Leader for Family Ministries at Stonebriar Community Church. She has a passion for supporting parents and helping them gain confidence and tools to be spiritual leaders in their homes. She is blessed to be the mom of a one son and the wife of her college sweetheart for 25 years. She and her husband are finding their way as empty nesters, and enjoying the new found freedom that comes with this stage of life. She is also an avid sports fan who loves all things NASCAR and football, especially in the fall in Texas.

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