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Helping Kids Learn Responsibility

Many parents say one of the biggest problems when teaching kids responsibility is lack of time. It does take time to teach kids how to do a chore or button a jacket and it takes even more time to involve kids in decisions or to discuss consequences of an action, but it is important to find the time. Here are some ideas that may help:

Setting routines can help parents find the time to teach responsibility. For example, if everyone does their household chores at the same time, it is easier to follow up on what is done and how well.

Have realistic expectations. Praise effort as well as accomplishment.

Be specific about what you say. Try, "The table is really clean because you wiped it off," instead of "What a good job."

Responsibility means learning from mistakes in an atmosphere of respect, not blame. Kids will shy away from trying to do something if failure means shame and lots of scolding.

Just For Parents is a community service of PROTEC and Meld. For more information about Meld, go to www.meld.org or call 805-680-7469.