A guest post by Susan Heid for Simple Marriage
Post written by mom and parenting columnist Susan Heid of The Confident Mom.
A few weeks back you may have seen fatherhood columnist, Dean Mehrken’s post titled “Paying Kids For Chores?” It was a topic that brought a lot of discussion and also triggered this post.
I wanted to share with readers some practical steps to actually implementing a chore system in your home successfully.
Who wants to repeat yourself over and over again to get a child to do a task that you can do in 10 minutes? NOT ME!
It is a common complaint with all parents, but more so with moms. It can be more a chore to enforce a chore!
I can remember when I was a single mom, I spent a lot of my time doing just that, draining my energy and raising my frustration level (and my voice)!... More...
