Kids Housekeeping Made Easy

Here is another suggestion for South Georgia Peach (see my last post here). Your quest to enjoy motherhood, to handle the kids housekeeping and not have to nag about the kids chores is a valiant one.

I suggest the “positive only” approach as an important key to having a great impact for good in your home. If you take on this approach you will start to LIKE being a mom again – and your family will also experience the difference.

Children want our attention desperately. Whatever you give them attention for is what they will subconsciously want to do again. So, if I were you I would choose to only give them attention for the GOOD things that are being done and ZERO attention for the negative ones. When your son hid the towels I got the feeling from your words that he received lots of negative attention. When your children play the Children’s Miracle Music game, the same rule applies. So when you see that the kids housekeeping is being done give your children LOADS of exaggerated praise.

This approach works very well with husbands as well J! Everyone likes others to see the good things they do. When I started using this new way of thinking, my teenage boy learned from my example and started thanking ME for doing my “Acts of Kindness” for him. He also took the time to put a star sticker on my hand (part of the Children’s Miracle Music game) and tell me what a great mom I was each morning. It seems like such a small thing to do but I have to say that he made my day when he said those few little words to me. You can imagine how a child would feel.

Playing the Children’s Miracle Music game also trains children how to love and serve others if you let them know the real reason that they are taking care of their areas. If your “Act of Kindness” (one of the points on the game) is to clean the bathroom which includes the toilet then you can remind your children that you are cleaning the toilet because you love them and want them to have a spotless place to sit. When they do any kind of an act of kindness, point out that they must love YOU for doing such a kind thing to make the place you live in so clean.

All the best with a breakthrough for you and your kids chores.

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