christian parenting Archives ⋆ Dale Wilsher

Last month I wrote about the “whys” behind implementing chores for your children, in the hope that I might motivate, encourage or simply remind you of the benefits of family responsibility, especially when it all seems like an uphill battle. On the days when no one wants to do their chores, when I seem to be working harder to train them to do their chores than they are at doing them, when I can’t come up with good chores for them to do–that is when I need to be reminded as to why I’m doing this. I thought that might help you too.

There are three more tips I want to offer that will help you persevere and be blessed by family chores:

Check out the tips at http://www.1corinthians13parenting.com/3-three-tips-for-families-who-do-chores/#comment-152111

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children, chores, christian parenting, responsibility

Do you ever put things off?

Avoid hard discussions?

Delay your responsibilities?

Even though we don’t want to, we all procrastinate at one time or another because we are either tired, distracted, busy or all of the above. Sometimes we are just plain lazy. Parenting is hard and requires great effort that we can’t always muster up, but the Bible has strong words for us about procrastination in James 4:17 when he warns “Anyone who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”

Read more about the reasons for procrastination and the strategies that can help at http://www.1corinthians13parenting.com/overcoming-procrastination-parent/… Read the rest

christian parenting, clutter, disorganized, organization, procrastination

3 Three Tips for Families Who DO Chores

Overcoming Procrastination as a Parent