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My Personal Statement On My Children

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As an adult with kids, I look back and I am grateful that my foster mom instilled in me a desire for hard work and diligence through weekly chores. Of course, I did not feel this way while I was cleaning the bathroom every Saturday, but as an adult, I understand the important lessons I was learning by doing them. Someday, your kids will actually thank you for making them do chores! Chores teach kids structure, hard work, and appreciation, and are important in creating a well-rounded child, student, and future adult. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” To train means to teach the skills needed to do something. I feel all I do is train my kids, over and over again, and usually on the same things. Training my children in how to do chores teaches them many things. It teaches them cause and effect; that I am not their maid, and it is their job to clean up after themselves and it teaches obedience. This is important as they reach school age and beyond, as they will be on their own in school and will need to learn to make the right choices and fix problems without the instant help of Mom. The Wall Street Journal published an online article that I thought was very interesting. “Giving children household chores at an early age helps to build a lasting sense of mastery, responsibility and self-reliance, according to research by Marty Rossmann, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. In 2002, Dr.

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