Teaching our kids little responsibilities

Your cousin has a three years old who put her plates in the sink when she finished eating, no reminder needed. Where did all of these wonders children come from?

Responsibility isn’t just completing a task. Its include attitude, the idea of taking action and being proud of doing it not just always having us  parents do it for them.

The whole process of responsibility will not happen in a day but it has to be a long and ongoing process in our families until it becomes a habit.

We can`t suddenly spring responsibility on children and expect they will know how to follow through it takes some time.

We need to show our children  how to do little things  explain how they can complete small tasks like instead of throwing the dirty clothes on the flow put something to store dirty clothes in the house and show her where the dirty clothes belong.

Kids love to help, let them participate in small things in the house show them that your very proud of what they are doing .They will develop the sense of ownership for any repeated action.

When we ask them to do things  like brushing their shoes still it won’t be at your expectation but we should not criticize them, instead we should congratulate them and next time show them how to do it better.

We should not reward them for learning responsibilities instead we should set a routine with a positive end result example they should brush their teeth before watching TV.

Also learning to take care of thinks  help children to develop a sense of responsibility of their action like cleaning up and put together their toys after playing the more we enforce the rules the more they will clean up without being asked.

****Teaching kids about responsibility isn’t easy, it takes years and lot of practises buts since we want to raise better and responsible children who will grow up and become  responsible adults we will keep on training them till we get the result we want****

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