I was in Starbucks the other day, and I happened to hear a couple of moms talking about how much trouble they had getting their school age kids to finish all their responsibilities and get into bed on school nights. Homework time took forever. Showers were balked at. They were out of their bed three or four times for drinks or questions. You get the idea. And, I totally got it. I remember those days. These days, though, we don’t struggle with any of it. One advantage of having a lot of kids is you have time to perfect things. My kids are older now and for the most part…
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Teaching Responsibility
Responsibility is a really hard concept to teach. And there are so many little things thrown in there as well such as consequences, honesty, and independence just to start. It’s one of those things you have to turn over to the child at some point because if you force them to be responsible, are they? Or are they being obedient? I mean, I do want my kids to be obedient. But I really want them to be responsible. I want them to take care of what they need to do when no one is standing there telling them to do it. Right now, it’s 10:00 p.m. on a Monday night…
