Another stellar video! As I develop a more minimalist approach with parenting and home education, I'm learning more and more to also be very selective about the voices I listen to. I find the few that resonate with the core of who I am (no point pretending I can be what I'm not) and listen to them, and yours is one of them. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us.
Wow, thank you. I'm a mom to 8 kids and I am a very tidy woman. I find that I get lazy in the training of chores and let them be done not so well and I pick up their slack , but I feel very convicted by this. I will pray on this.
My kids do daily chores, but I usually have to come behind them and finish the task to my standards. I will definitely be working on that... Great advice!
Inspect what you expect! Great video, thanks so much. Chores have been something we've really focused on for the last year and it's finally getting (slightly) easier.
you have to go through what you own at least twice a year, and evaluate, but as you become better, you let less in, an things begin to manage themselves.
For the penny rewards....did you discuss with the kids what things could earn them a penny? I'm loosely starting this but haven't been clear with the kids and I think that might help spur them to better behavior. How often do you let them "cash in" their pennies?
the things we have decided to reward for are: speaking well to others, (my house can be full of yelling to each other when they want something) doing a job well, doing something without having to be asked, and serving others and they get pennies for working with good attitudes. I don't tell them every time they get a penny, it's not like they know every time they do something good it earns a reward, that way the doing good is becomes a habit that is rewarded and not a bunch of kids itching to see pennies. when I take pennies out, it is for complaining, bad speech and so on, and I do let the child know I have removed pennies.
So appreciate this video!
Another stellar video! As I develop a more minimalist approach with parenting and home education, I'm learning more and more to also be very selective about the voices I listen to. I find the few that resonate with the core of who I am (no point pretending I can be what I'm not) and listen to them, and yours is one of them. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us.
Super super helpful! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, thank you. I'm a mom to 8 kids and I am a very tidy woman. I find that I get lazy in the training of chores and let them be done not so well and I pick up their slack , but I feel very convicted by this. I will pray on this.
My kids do daily chores, but I usually have to come behind them and finish the task to my standards. I will definitely be working on that... Great advice!
Inspect what you expect! Great video, thanks so much. Chores have been something we've really focused on for the last year and it's finally getting (slightly) easier.
its worth the effort!
Your videos and blog are so helpful! Thank you!
I'm so glad!
Yes. How do you manage clutter with a growing family
you have to go through what you own at least twice a year, and evaluate, but as you become better, you let less in, an things begin to manage themselves.
I'm curious what you have for toys/how you store them with a large family.
we don't have many. lego is teh go to for my older kids, and magnetic blocks for the little ones. then just some cars and a few play things. :)
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For the penny rewards....did you discuss with the kids what things could earn them a penny? I'm loosely starting this but haven't been clear with the kids and I think that might help spur them to better behavior. How often do you let them "cash in" their pennies?
the things we have decided to reward for are: speaking well to others, (my house can be full of yelling to each other when they want something) doing a job well, doing something without having to be asked, and serving others and they get pennies for working with good attitudes. I don't tell them every time they get a penny, it's not like they know every time they do something good it earns a reward, that way the doing good is becomes a habit that is rewarded and not a bunch of kids itching to see pennies. when I take pennies out, it is for complaining, bad speech and so on, and I do let the child know I have removed pennies.
I'd like to do penny rewards for TV but our TV set up is everyone together
yes ours is very much like that during the week, but on weekends we have a movie night, if you don't have the pennies, you go to bed!