NHC Family~ Habits of Home: Chores & Life Skills

No Higher Calling

In 2015, The Wall Street Journal did a survey recording that while 82% of people parenting today did chores growing up, only 28% of those parents were requiring their children to do chores today. Why the significant decrease? Is it important for our children to do chores? Simeon joins me as we discuss how chores help children learn life skills, how to work together as a team, and how to grow in responsibility.

Danelle Fisher, M.D., pediatrician and vice chair of pediatrics at Providence Saint John's Heath Center in Santa Monica, California, says, "When you break chores down, they are activities of daily living. You as an adult need to tend to yourself, your home, and your family. It teaches you that responsiblity as a child, that things don't just come to you, but you have to work for it."

Sometimes we think that work is a part of man's sin curse, but that is not true! God created man to work! He designed for every person, old and young, to get great satisfaction from a job well done. We can help our children understand this as we include them in the habits of home.

Scriptures Referenced:

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Mark 9:35

I Corinthains 10:31

Resources Referenced:

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier https://amzn.to/3Kf7qfa

When Your Child is 6 to 12 by John Drescher https://amzn.to/44NlbeJ

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