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Fun, not obligation - how children like to help with household


"My children need help in the household." Time and again I hear this sentence, which is usually announced by proud mothers. What bothers me personally about this sentence is the word "shall". Why is she so proud to force others to something that they do not want to seem? Lend a hand in the household is of course desirable and necessary, but if it would happen largely voluntary, it would be much better, right?
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Small children love to help with anything, what do you do during the day in her presence. My 1.5-year-old godson, for example, runs quite often with a rag around the house and make everything clean and my 4-year-old nephew loves to clean the windows. Drying, re-sort in cabinets sweeping, cutting, stirring the pot, watering flowers ... Small children will love all of these duties, they are meticulously and comply with dedication to the cause.

And right now, it is important to encourage it. What they need is a sense of achievement. This means that you press to praise the children and sometimes even both eyes when the results seen for themselves are far from optimal. In any case, you should now point to correct the deficiencies or unsettled issue, then optimize. While it may work but sometimes betray tricks that the whole process even better.

If we now shows patience, benefited you later. Initially, for example, cooking with Tim has lasted almost twice as long now (now Tim is 12 years), he cooks with a passion rather than out of duty alone, often have lunch or we cook together. Since then, he has discovered his love for the scraps and cutting with high-quality knives, he also makes sure that they are always perfectly polished.

Even among many other things he is now a real help. Overall, we have concluded that we prefer to do most work with fun rather than to split them as duties.

Posted on 10th October 2009 under general education, personality development, Misc. Tags: Comments: None

The other day at the traffic lights


I stood in the Dortmund City last week with a lot of other people - including two colorfully dressed punk girls - at a traffic light. Opposite us, a young boy waiting with his mother on his wheel. When it finally turned green, he began to move and drove straight toward us. The two girls were delighted with the little one full and one said: "Look, the little boy on his bicycle!" Then the boy remained standing abruptly, turned around and shouted: "Hey!" The two stopped and turned to his surprise to him. The boy stretched himself once more and said firmly: "This is not a bike - is it a motorcycle." While the two punk girls laughed impressed, went on the boy.

Again and again during the week, I had to chuckle to think of these tiny tot and. Despite his relative youth - estimated to represent less than 3 years - he was acting entirely independently. The mother of the little boy came with the whole not in appearance. Self-confident, he solved the unexpected "problem" alone. With convincing posture as well as through the use of his voice, he gained a respect and advocates for his "beliefs". In short, direct and immediate.

If you want your child to act as self-confident? You know that our children take their parents as role models for their own behavior patterns. And what about us? Action, we are always confident, and therefore a good model for our children? Or do we sometimes fail to make the decisive moment his mouth, and hey presto, the situation is already missed it? They have not said the opposite, which one disagrees, one's own position is not made clear or defend the right thing at the right time not pronounced. Accordingly, our thoughts often revolve days later, at past problems and missed opportunities. A major boost in this regard comes from Taoism, a millennia-old trend of thought from Ancient China: handle made from a special state of mind out spontaneously and intuitively - "from the gut" - and you will always do the right thing (but on this later in a next article).

For today only, therefore:

Do we want to enhance or change our children, we should first strengthen ourselves or modify. Always begin by looking at yourself and watch with joy, change how their children.

Written on 29 September 2008 under General Education, Other. Tags: Comments: None