Have your children do their chores. Period.

By: Miss Hetty King

scrubbing the floor

"Never, let your children get bored. It makes them cranky, grumpy, and much worse- idle, or lazy. Every child must have some chore. It can be anything, like ironing or cleaning for an example. They can black the stove, feed the chickens, milk the cows, clean the stalls, scrub the floor, weed the garden, or dust the house. But, every positive thing has a downside. If you give your children too much to do, they don't have any time for anything else for their pleasure, like fishing or playing in the barn. Give them some regular routines in the morning, afternoon or evening. Preferably mornings and evenings. One thing that never changes, and we see it alot in today's society, children and teens who don't want to work, they just sit idly in front of a large picture tube, and it's destroying them what comes in front of their faces. It is our job to change all that, and to make our children good hard workers. Don't allow your kids to whine when they have to do something, and then give in to what they want. They will cry next time and they will do the same thing over and over again until they get what they want. That happens way too often, however, we are putting a stop to it. And that's what you should do.