Please teach your kids practical home maintenance skills. Not only is it expensive to hire somebody to do everything around the house, but they will grow in the very important trait of self-confidence by meeting and conquering everyday challenges. My dad grew up on a farm and so had picked up a good collection of…
Category Archives: Chores
To Serve or Be Served?
As home educators, most of us spend a good bit of time thinking about how to better motivate our children to learn. Carrots and sticks, personal interests, just the right curriculum materials…what’s the key to helping our children be motivated learners? It’s interesting that the great Teacher himself connected learning to serving: “Take My yoke…
Age Appropriate Chores
It is during the summer months that I assign chores to each of the kids and train them how to properly do their chores. They then keep those chores during the next “school” year so it flows more smoothly by having the chore training done before the usual busyness and readjusting that comes with a…
