Thursday, May 13, 2010

If you want kids to succeed, get them started young on household chores

(found on Canada.com)

Your three-year-old is not too young to match the socks in the family laundry basket; your five-year-old can make his bed by pulling up the comforter. Your eight-year-old can make her own lunch and your 10-year-old can do all of the above, plus put away the groceries and do the family laundry -- sorting it by colours first.

Is this happening in your home?

There's no reason why it shouldn't, says California psychologist Michele Borba, author of 23 books on child-rearing, who recently was in Nanaimo addressing about 250 parents on childhood behaviour and parental solutions.

Read more here.

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