Parental Style

in #responsibility6 years ago

Both families an governments are faced with decisions about differing strategies used to keep the family safe and happily functioning. Like most things, these strategies swing like a pendulum. Hard to soft. Demanding to easy. Strict to loose. What style will help a child (citizen) grow to be productive. What styles will lead to Rebellion? a1drjohnthumb.JPG

This topic is broad and complex. To simplify things we will focus on children and responsibilities at home: cooking and cleaning.

At what age should children learn to clean their environment? At what age should children learn to shoulder the responsibility of preparing a family meal?

Should parents provide for their children until age 10 or age 15... maybe age 20? When does capability shift to adult responsibility? Are these changes gradual or abrupt?

I know of families that approach child responsibility as a ‘greenhouse’ where children are sheltered from harsh realities until they are mature enough to survive. Others throw their children in deep water to encourage inner survival instincts to sprout and grow.

If food (ingredients) are provided to make sandwiches, when should children be allowed or required to feed themselves? When should they be required to clean the remainders and then live with the results at the next meal? The bread has become stale? Eat it anyway so you learn to cover it next time.

An efficient family learns to be intelligent. An efficient country is the same.

There are discussions about providing universal basic income to citizens. What behavior do you expect from children who have yet to learn about personal responsibility. I expect most will sit back and repeat “feed me”. When their environment becomes filthy... they will require a cleaning service.

Who will cook and who will clean?

The answers rest in the decisions made by parents of young children.

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I know as a child one of the best examples was my parents maintaining all of the stuff we had and keeping everything clean. This also included the children participating in some of this as we became old enough.


Everyone have their own style, but parents are parents@doctorjohn

I think children should be taught very soon. Everything that helps to become a successful man.


P.S. My son (older) also goes to the voting booth with me everytime I go and my daughter (younger) will when she is a little older. Civic responsibility is big with me as well.My children are 5 and 2 and they are required to help with chores such as laundry, dishes and putting away groceries. They have things that they can do on their own and there are things that they do with us. Discipline, self reliance and responsibility are hallmarks of a productive memeber of society. They complete tasks to earn change which they are required to put half in their piggy banks and half to use at their discretion to teach fiscal responsibility. The same with birthday or holiday money, although I have setup 509s (I contribute $50 a month to both accounts) for both kids that I encourage people to fund and my parents also get them an ounce of silver for every birthday and christmas. They are involved with cooking and allowed to procure their own snacks, but when it comes to preparing anything that needs gas or electric appliances, they doit with us. They also are given and held to standards of conduct and speach. I speak, reason and explain to them as I would any other person and provide them the opportunity to make their own educated decisions and then hold them to them and respect their decisions. We are always there to help along the way and failure is always an option as valuable lessons can be learned, motivation gained, perspective gained, confidence gained and pride built by failing. Successes are celebrated and recieve the same debrief as failures. I am a big proponent of learning by doing and experimenting after some tesearch has been done. Nothing is sugar coated, but everything is explained and discussed. I love my children with all my heart and it is my responsibility in an age of entitlement and laziness to provide society with two intelligent, educated, motivated and responsible memebers. Life is a game, you need to learn the rules before you develop your own strategy. Thanks for the post @doctorjohn, I hope I didn’t ramble to much and it is not my intention to brag, just share my strategy.