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Here is a short Bible Report I wrote (though I haven't mastered this myself yet!  )

How You Can be Helpful in the Home 

A family is not just a bunch of people living together in the same house, but a family, where everyone does his or her share of the work for the good of everyone. However, it is not fair to give one person more work than the rest, either. Every one should be helpful to one another.

And everyone should be helpful around the house, too. If you see a piece of paper on the floor that does not belong there, pick it up. Do not leave it on the floor for someone else to pick up. Do not say, “I did not put it there, therefore I do not have to pick it up.” If everyone says this, no one will pick it up. Go willingly, with a servant’s heart, and pick up that piece of paper. If there is a job that needs to be done, do it.

Not all helpfulness is cleaning and putting things away, although that may be a great help. Sometimes just sitting down with a book and reading to a little sibling can help your mother a great deal, especially if the child has been begging for her mother’s attention all day.

Do not help grudgingly, though. If you are helping with a complaining spirit and putting as little into the job as possible, that is not helping. In fact, that may even create more work for someone else! Do your duties cheerfully and well.

Having a bad attitude will not help anything. However, if you have a sunny outlook and a good attitude about whatever you are told, you may be a big help. Suppose all of your siblings are fighting. Why tire your parents out more by joining in the fighting, complaining, or having a bad attitude? Rather, try to stop the fights, and be a peacemaker!

If you do not know what to do to help, ask your parents. They would be pleased to tell you how you can help.

Your reason should not be, “No one else is helping, and someone has to, so it might as well be me.” Do it “unto the Lord.”

The Bible says, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”