Want to know the secret to raising kids who grow up to be successful, happy and responsible adults?

Make them do chores!

I found study after study, one that spanned 80 years that proves that children benefit from doing chores. The “roll-up your sleeves” and “pitch-in mindset” that comes from understanding that someone has to do the dirty work and if it’s going to get done, I’ll do it, was a key indicator of success in adults. And, the earlier our kids learn to do chores the better! Children as young as 3 & 4 can begin learning that they have to do work of life in order to be part of a family. Chores teach our kids that it isn’t always ‘just about them’. That when they leave the dishes in the sink, they don’t just magically get washed and put away...when they leave a candy wrapper on the table, that it magically gets put in the garbage….our kids need to learn that when they don’t do something, that means they are expecting someone else to do it for them. And this is a key character trait I see in difficult children, spoiled children, disrespectful and ungrateful children...don’t want those kind of kids???? Give them chores and begin teaching them that they have to work for the life they have and want to have in the future!