Aug. 11, 2005 - Delegating Household Responsibilities to Our Children, part 2
In a previous post
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/SingleParentsAtHome/14286/
I discussed how important it is to delegate household responsibilities to our children and how much I missed my boys' help when they were gone while I was sick.
Here are a couple of comments readers made:
I am not a single parent, but I feel that training my children to help with the household responsibilities is a very important part of raising children. ~ Christa
My girls help me out a whole bunch! Even if I wasn't single, I would have my girls help out a lot. ~ Janet
Christa and Janet both raise the important issue that teaching children responsibility is important whether their parents are single or not. It's simply a necessary part of their training to be mature, responsible adults.
My 8yo son often comments that if Daddy were still here, Daddy could earn the living, I could do all the housework, and they could just do their schoolwork and play. I always assure him that he and his brothers would still have plenty of chores, both for the sake of contributing to the work of the family and for the character benefits of learning to work.
Mary Jo
