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.
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.
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