🗣️📣 Privileges not Chores As soon as your children are old enough, delegate as...

�️📣 Privileges not Chores

As soon as your children are old enough, delegate as many privileges (what we call chores around here) to them as possible.

Children need to feel useful, powerful, and invested in the family’s success. Giving them the privilege to help maintain their own items and the communal living spaces is vital for their mental health.

Do not micromanage them. Set expectations, show them how to do it, and let them figure out their own systems. Suggest that they do research online or buy them a book about the subject if the privilege is more complicated, for example, lawn maintenance.

Children who are not fully invested in the family’s operations are the ones who are most likely to rebel against what you teach them. Preventing them from contributing is preventing them from bonding with you.

We are looking for a property with enough space to raise a few animals and grow some crops. Not because its cheaper than buying food, it isn’t, but because it gives the boys rewarding, masculine chores.

Same reason we will work together to build some of the things we need on the property. It’s MUCH cheaper to hire someone, but then my sons learn nothing.