On Parenting: Basic Training

As parent, we do everything we can to keep our kids safe and  to make sure they grow up healthy; we teach them to eat right, to look both ways before they cross the street, and to get the rest they need to learn , to grow and most importantly to survive. So, last summer my husband and I start teaching our daughter the basic life skills like doing the dishes every night. We don't want her to be like most of the young people here nowadays who are so spoiled, that in their start years after high school or college suffer from work and life unreadiness. In what my hubby and I observe of the new generations; they lack of practical skills and behaviors, the real-world insights pivotal to success in work and life. 

Sure, it's easier to do things yourself than to teach your kids how. But that does them a huge disservice. My hubby and both believe on ”the benefits of knowing how to take care of  your basic, everyday needs go way beyond the practical.  My hubby always telling me this  "it's impossible to  quantify how great kids feel, how proud and confident they are, when they've learned to be self-sufficient" when the time that I didn't start to teach my daughter anything about the housework because I feel that she's still so young for it.

And to help our kids become happy adults, we have to give them the gift of competence.  I’m going to post a series of helpful plans that we hope parents or parents to be can learn from as we go on training our daughter.  FYI: kids who can handle everyday task are happier and more confident.  They also need to know you can count on them. Give them real chores on a regular basis so they’ll learn how to be reliable. Let the lesson begin! ;-)