Your delivery includes your tone of voice, timing and tempo. Communication skills involve our ability to listen. It's usually over some extremely important issue, like who gets to use the red LegoTM piece. Please, I beg you, give me some ideas to put an end to this bickering. Realizing that I had to find other children and at-home parents nearby, my solution was to start a playgroup.
Regular chores establish helpful habits and good attitudes about work.
Children who grow up perceiving chores as a normal part of life will find the flow into adulthood much easier than those without responsibility will. It is a sad fact that today all our children are being touched by the shadow of divorce. Even if they are not among the growing number of families split apart by divorce, they will be influenced indirectly. They will know children whose parents divorce. When your morning activities run smoothly, and you're out the door on time it can make your whole day feel better.