21. Chore Chart chores teach children how to take initiative become selfsufficient. chores teach children that responsibility is a part of life Proven Chart Ideas http://www.toymagnets.com/suppliers/dowling_magnets/chore_chart.cfm

Home Toy Brands Dowling Magnets Chore Chart Retail Price: $10.00 Our Price: $8.95 Item: Quantity on Hand: Busy family? Need some organization? Kids need some responsibility? Need a solid answer to these common household issues? A: Chore Charts! All kids-including those with mild or profound disabilities-benefit from experiences with chores. For a great read, peruse Children and Chores courtesy of Quest, the magazine of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. What Chores Do For Kids: Chores develop self esteem in children. Chores provide children a role in being a meaningful contributor to the family. Chores give children independence. Chores teach children that responsibility is a part of life Proven Chart Ideas: You can total marks and teach your child the value of self-evaluation on a job well done. Or offer praise, privileges, rewards or cash. For younger children, use sticky tack or a small piece of tape to adhere pictures of each chore cut from a magazine. You can even use Sharpie permanent marker on your chore chart for the items you do not intend to erase often. (Nail polish remover will do the trick when you find that it is time to remove them.) Time Tested Tips: Model the correct way to do the chore Show your children how to accomplish the chore on their own.

22. Teach-At-Home Features Even young children need to participate in family chores to develop a sense of belonging and teachAt-Home is listed as a family-friendly and child-safe http://www.teach-at-home.com/SFranklin3.asp

Search for Home Legal About Us Link To Us ... Contact Note: The opinons expressed in featured articles solely reflect those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect those of Teach-At-Home, its affiliates or its advertisers. Teach-At-Home neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy of these features. For full details, see our Of Children, Chores and Schedules by Susan Franklin Even young children need to participate in family chores to develop a sense of belonging and a feeling of accomplishment. Homeschooling parents need schedules to keep the chores in their proper place so as to not take over the day and push aside time needed for direct instruction. If you fear a schedule, remember, it is a guide, but not a dictator. My schedule helps to keep a balance in my life. If I don’t schedule time for a date with my husband and time for myself, motherhood can completely overtake my life to the detriment of all. As the saying goes, “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” We have incorporated a schedule in our home to give each person’s needs and responsibilities their proper due and to keep our home running “decently and in order.” Incidentally, if you’re a fan of television, you’ll find that if you have some personal goals, want to have an orderly home and time with your loved ones, television just doesn’t fit into the picture once you try to work out a schedule. A cheerful attitude that trickles down from mom is necessary to maintain harmony while keeping household chaos at bay. Scheduling time during the early morning for exercise, prayer, Bible study and extra reading makes it it easier to keep that patient, sweet tone in my voice throughout the day.

23. Household Chores Barrett suggests that parents assign chores to children at a young age and also The purpose is to teach children about their social responsibilities to http://www.lifespan.org/Services/ChildHealth/Parenting/chores.htm

Lifespan Home Page Parenting Household Chores Chores Teach Responsibility "The value of chores," explains Bradley Hospital’s Rowland Barrett, PhD, chief psychologist, "is in the lessons learned from accomplishing them: a sense of pride, self-respect, and the experience of being connected to others who depend on the child’s contribution." Parents begin almost unconsciously by assigning children tasks such as washing their own faces, brushing their teeth, progressing to the responsibilities of completing their homework on time and attending school. Children usually accept these personal responsibilities readily, but household chores can be more difficult to delegate successfully. Barrett suggests that parents assign chores to children at a young age and also advises them not to pay their children for contributing. "It will not hurt them," he adds. "The purpose is to teach children about their social responsibilities to their family and to equip them for the many social responsibilities that will confront them in society as teenagers and adults." Read the entire article Back Home Search ... Site Map Web site design by Lifespan By using this website, you accept the

24. "On Being A Parent: Use Age-Appropriate Chores To Teach Your Child Responsibilit But ageappropriate chores help teach children responsibility. children need to learn to be responsible for themselves. In addition, chores should teach http://www.parent-institute.com/parent/ezine/chores.html

On Being a Parent www.parent-institute.com Use Age-Appropriate Chores To Teach Your Child Responsibility Parents shouldn't burden young children with tasks they're not ready to handle. But age-appropriate chores help teach children responsibility. Children need to learn to be responsible for themselves. In addition, chores should teach helpfulness. And chores should engage kids in helping their family and others. Here are some chores a four-year-old can do with your supervision: Find grocery items in the store. Help put groceries away. Help with the laundry (fold towels, sort white clothes from dark). Dust furniture. Take library books and videos to and from the car. Help younger brothers and sisters. Help plant a garden. Put dishes in the dishwasher (or dry dishes). Empty dishwasher and stack dishes on counter. Make a simple meal/snack. Using chores to teach responsibility is just one of many topics covered in The Parent Institute's Booklet Pack #1—Academic Success . Available in English and Spanish for only $19.00!

25. Chores And What They Mean To Your Child | Family Resource (FamilyResource.com) In the beginning, we want to be sure that we teach our children the life chores should be fair. Rotate chores so that one child or another does not get http://www.familyresource.com/parenting/6/536/

Find Articles Relationships Parenting Pregnancy ... Chores and What They Mean to Your Child Chores and What They Mean to Your Child By: Dr. Gail Gross Children learn things at the knees of their mothers that they can’t get anywhere else. They learn about life and how to experience it. Parents really are the first teachers – and dare I say it – the home the first schoolhouse. As parents, we have embarked upon the journey of guiding a new member of our species into adulthood successfully. In the beginning, we want to be sure that we teach our children the life skills that will allow them to take care of themselves when we are no longer around – or not wanted around. But then, we realize that as a lateral benefit, not only is our child learning good housekeeping skills, but also dexterity, task mastery, and self-sufficiency, which leads to a self-actualized child. This is the child that we all hope and dream for – the leader who can withstand peer pressure, rather than “follow the herd” consciousness. Children that feel secure, and valued, as part of a connected group called family are more likely to be positively reinforced rather than perform for approval. As children are made to feel a valued part of their family, their importance to the group gives them pride and a sense of contribution. When assigning chores, remember Mom, to begin at the beginning. Think back to your youth. That’s right – all the way back. Can you even recall when or where you first learned to make a bed, wash a dish or launder an article of clothing? Probably not! And yet the knowledge of how to take care of ourselves is part of the preparation for adulthood. So while handing out chores, be certain to be realistic with your expectations. You want your child to succeed and have a feeling of accomplishment – a job well done. As a result, be careful and skillful in your job assignments, and see to it that they are both age-appropriate and safe. The aim here is learning, and what you are trying to create is a secure, self-actualized child who is equipped to go out into the world and make a life, in essence modeled after yours, be what you want to see.

26. Child.com Say Yes To Chores chores also help children develop a sense of responsibility, says Dr. Billingham. Another plus Daily or weekly chores teach children skills they ll use http://www.child.com/kids/child_development/chores.jsp

27. OrganizedHome.Com: Clean, Cut Clutter, Get Organized - Content children and chores The blasted terrain is familiar a dirty house, By the end of the year, teach the eldest child to do his or her own laundry, http://organizedhome.com/content-71.html

Welcome Visitor! register login Main Menu Main Menu : Home News Index Submit News Story FAQ Get Organized: Clean House Cut Clutter Family Matters Get Organized ... In the Kitchen Freezer Cook: Freezer Cooking Easy-Start Guide Freezer FAQ Freezer Recipes Free Printables: Household Notebook Price Book Printable Gallery Planner Forms ... Calendars Community : Message Boards Get Organized Links Reader Tips Product Reviews ... Tell A Friend Members : Your Account My Journal Private Messages Lost Password? Last Member Tip: A household tip from Jackie Lewis markers on hand I keep a couple of permanent markers in the drawer with my food wraps and zipper bags. No more excuses for not dating food headed for the abyss that is my deep freezer. view tips add your tip to our database Amazon Keeping House: Hints and Tips for a Beautifully Clean Home Price: Your purchase from Amazon.Com supports our online community! Kids and Chores: Chilling the Chore Wars by Cynthia Townley Ewer Editor, OrganizedHome.Com The blasted terrain is familiar: a dirty house, balky children, and frazzled, frustrated parents. How to negotiate a peace on the itchy issue of children and chores? Try these strategies to calm the conflict and gain the goal: The Buck(et) Stops Here We have met the enemy, and it is us! Lingering ambivalence about our family's life and our own choices can keep us from successfully gaining kid cooperation where household chores are concerned.

28. Winning The War On Chores Parents must see chores as an opportunity to teach their children both important life skills and values. Surprisingly, Covey, the father of 10, http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,37-12953,00.html

Winning the War on Chores By Patricia Sullivan Getting the Job Done Many parents cajole, beg, or even bribe their children to help out around the house and still end up with a lawn that needs mowing, a sink full of dirty dishes, unmade beds, and a pet dog barking to go out for a walk. How can parents get the real result they're looking for: children who do their chores without being reminded or reprimanded? Although chores are important because they teach basic life skills and help children build personal responsibility, the children and their relationships with their parents have to be of paramount importance, according to John Covey, director of home and family for Franklin Covey Company and co-author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families: A Proactive Family Guide Book . This doesn't mean that children get a pass on chores; rather, parents should establish a solid one-on-one relationship with each child. This way, the parents' values and principles will be embraced by the children, and getting chores done will be a lot easier for everyone involved, he said. "There are always two reasons parents want their children to do chores - to get the job done and to help the children grow," Covey said. "If children don't do chores, how do they learn? How do they build personal responsibility?"

29. Teach Your Children...About Money teach Your children About Money , Living Better for Less! I don t pay for all chores, however. Doing dishes is a given, help the household chore, http://www.stretcher.com/stories/00/000515g.cfm

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30. Teaching Children The Value Of Money teach your children the value of money, , Living Better for Less! It s up to you to develop a list of chores that can be done around the house, http://www.stretcher.com/stories/00/000828i.cfm

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31. How To Teach Your Children Discipline Spanking does not teach children how to change what they do, as good discipline should. One thing is to set routines for bedtime, meals and chores. http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/discipline.3.19.html

How to Teach Your Children Discipline By Marilyn E. Gootman, Ed.D. advertisement Credits Source National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse Contents FAQs About Spanking What can I do to help my children feel good about themselves? How can I set limits? What do I do when my children break the rules? Forums Raising our Kids Related Articles Life as a Parent Helping Your Child Learn Responsible Behavior Children have to be taught discipline. They are not born with it. Little by little parents have to teach it to them. While teaching discipline does take time and practice, it gets easier as children learn to control their own behavior. And best of all, teaching discipline does not have to hurt either the parents or the kids. Parents ask.. What is discipline? Discipline is helping children develop self-control. Discipline is setting limits and correcting misbehavior. Discipline also is encouraging children, guiding them, helping them feel good about themselves, and teaching them how to think for themselves. Is spanking a useful approach to discipline?

32. When To Teach Kids About Money At what age should parents start teaching their children about money and saving? We don t tie chores to allowance; chores are part of being a family. http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/columns/drt/archive/2005/dt050714.html

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33. Getting Kids To Do Chores | Organizing : RealSimple.com We all know chores teach important life lessons, so most of us try to induce our If you re inclined to pay your children to do chores, try setting a http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/content/organize/0,21770,689172,00.html

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34. Epinions.com - Advice On The Best Chores For Kids chores teach children responsibility, no matter the age. Check my example out! read full review, Very Helpful. by charlenep http://www.epinions.com/kifm-Chores/sec_~opinion_list/pp_~3

Join Epinions Help Sign In All Categories Advanced Search Home Topics The Best Chores for Kids What sorts of chores do you assign to your child, and why? Member advice on The Best Chores for Kids View all Sort by Author Sort by Date Written Sorted by Opinion Rating by conraddad Nov 26 '00 Chores can be fun read full review Very Helpful by jillrashel Mar 27 '01 Chores For Your Kids Chores teach. read full review Very Helpful by BlackBear Apr 01 '00 Teach a Child Responsiblity read full review Very Helpful by Apr 07 '00 Chores not Wars....... read full review Very Helpful by Mar 12 '01 I'm a mean Mommy... With three children in my house, they all do chores. Even the little ones. Chores teach children responsibility, no matter the age. Check my example out! read full review Very Helpful by charlenep Mar 04 '01 Playing with Chores - Have fun with your kids involving chores. Let them be a part of the routine. read full review Very Helpful by PacBayStat Jul 28 '00 Chores and kids read full review Very Helpful by JDinPA Jun 28 '00 Chores Can Help Build Family Unity read full review Very Helpful by Jan 23 '00 Dislike the word "chore". It's being an important contributor to the family.

35. Women One - Where Women Come First chores help inculcate a sense of responsibility in the children, teach them how to cooperate and involve them in family life. Parents should give their http://www.womenone.org/parenting_6.htm

Home Page Faces Health Beauty ... Etcetera Raising responsible children By Rachna Buxani, Counsellor, Delhi Private School, Sharjah Just the other day Mrs. Mack was in my office complaining about how Rachael her 15-year-old daughter doesn’t help out around the house at all. “She is old enough now, and needs to be taking care of her own stuff. She doesn’t clean her room, pick up her books or tidy her cupboard. I just don’t know how to get her to be responsible,” explained a distressed Mrs. Mack. Children’s failure to be responsible is the basis for family arguments in many homes. One mistake parents often make is that they pamper their little ones right through their early years and suddenly one day when the child hits puberty he/she is expected to perform all the chores perfectly. Chores should begin as soon as the child is a toddler with things like picking up their toys or choosing their clothes. Children of four or five years of age have a natural desire to help. Take advantage of this and give the child a chore to do that will not burden him/her. Start with one chore and do not add another until the first one is done properly. Add chores slowly, building from simple ones to the more complex as the child grows older.

36. Chores For Children Are you having problems with your children doing chores? We have to teach responsiblity and chores are the necessary way. of teaching. http://ca.essortment.com/choresforchil_rudq.htm

Chores for children Are you having problems with your children doing chores? Try telling him that you will work with him on a chore that needs to be done now instead of later. Are you having problems with your child not wanting to do his chores? Is he perhaps just putting them off expecting that he won't have to do them or that you might do them for him? If he does them he is performing them in a sloppy manner? This is something you can change with hopefully a few of the ideas that I have for you. Are you letting your child decide what to do first? Say he wants to watch a favorite movie on the television and then wants to do the chores later, but it keeps getting later and chores just don't get done because he gets sleepy or it is too late to do them anyway? Try telling him that you will work with him on a chore that needs to be done now instead of later: perhaps he needs a little nudge to urge him along, and by this he can learn the chores don't need to be put off till later. Sometimes children don't know how to start a chore on their own and do need a little help or a nudge and this can help. The next time he performs the same chore you might tell him that he will need to do this alone.

37. Use Everyday Experiences To Teach Children About Money - 05/31/2003 Parents have opportunities every day to teach their children valuable A more controversial topic is tying allowances to chores, according to Boelter. http://www.uwex.edu/news/story.cfm/585

In page navigation content site navigation University of Wisconsin - Extension Learning for Life About UW-Extension News @ UW-Extension Use Everyday Experiences To Teach Children About Money - 05/31/2003 home search contact Story options Printer friendly Use everyday experiences to teach children about money Public Relations Department 432 North Lake Street Madison, WI 53706 608-262-9871 608-262-8404 (fax) 608-265-9317 (TTY) Linda Boelter - Madison - Children today receive more money at younger ages than in the past, but how do they learn critical money management skills? "Parents have opportunities every day to teach their children valuable lessons about handling money," says Linda Boelter, Family Financial Management Specialist with University of Wisconsin-Extension. "But first you need to think about your own feelings, behaviors and values about money," suggests Boelter. "Remember, children learn not just from what you say, but also by what you do." "Children are great observers," Boelter says, "so their financial education really begins when they are seated in the grocery store cart." Starting as early as three or four, children become aware of money and that it can be exchanged for goods. Make believe activities like playing store, restaurant, post office, bank, or gas station give children an opportunity to act out what they observe. Preschoolers can learn the names of coins, how to count, and the values of different coins. They can learn simple decision-making skills by making choices in the context of daily activities. For example, giving them some coins to spend at the supermarket teaches them about spending decisions. Make sure your children understand that spending must be limited to the coin at hand. This teaches them that people do not always have enough money to buy what they want¿¯Â¿Â½-¯Â¿Â½¯Â¿Â½-¯Â¿Â½¯Â¿Â½an important life lesson.

38. Kids And Chores Kids and chores. We consider it part of our responsibility as parents to teach our children certain habits and skills that they need to be independent, http://www.technomom.com/home/kidschores.shtml

Kids and Chores We consider it part of our responsibility as parents to teach our children certain habits and skills that they need to be independent, responsible adults. Taking care of themselves and their surroundings is important, and they can't learn without doing - so we want them to know how to keep house, cook, plan meals, shop for groceries, etc. The only real way to learn those things is to do them, and to do them over and over again until they become second nature. Also, kids need to know that they are important to the household. If they're waited on hand and foot, they don't learn that. There's a certain pride in a job well done, in knowing that you've contributed something good to your family, that has to be experienced to be understood. Expectations As adults, we know how to do many things - and we seldom remember learning to do them. Boil water? Sure. Clean the bedroom? No problem. Iron a blouse? I'll plug in the iron. But we did have to learn how to do those things at some point. In fact, we had to develop separate skills for some tasks - how to dust, vacuum, hang or fold clothing to put it away, make a bed, etc. Most 3-year-olds can be expected to put their toys in the toy box, but they can't be expected to go clean their bedrooms independently. Some kids can alphabetize a shelf of books at 5, and some can't. If you aren't sure as to what you can expect from a child of a certain age, check out the book

39. Children And Chores, An Article By Teri Maxwell If we choose not to give our children chores and teach them to accomplish them well, we are handicapping our children for their futures as adults. http://www.titus2.com/corners/8-05-m.htm

//Document Level Menu Settings cddcodebase = "http://www.Titus2.com/code/" cddcodebase844034 = "http://www.Titus2.com/code/" cddactivate_onclick = false cddshowhide_delay = cddurl_target = "_self" cddurl_features = "resizable=1, scrollbars=1, titlebar=1, menubar=1, toolbar=1, location=1, status=1, directories=1, channelmode=0, fullscreen=0" cdddisplay_urls_in_status_bar = true cdddefault_cursor = "hand" Mom's Corner - August 2005 Children and Chores Teri Maxwell Written by Teri Maxwell, co-author of Managers of Their Homes, A Practical Guide to Daily Scheduling for Christian Homeschool Families Keeping Our Children's Hearts Just Around the Corner: Encouragement and Challenge for Homeschooling Dads and Moms and author of Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit Teri Maxwell is the mother of eight children and began homeschooling in 1985. Three of her children have graduated from homeschool, two are still living in their home and one is married. Teri is a homeschool conference speaker and has been writing monthly articles of encouragement for homeschooling moms since 1990. To subscribe to the monthly corners, send a blank e-mail to:

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