Teach your child to be responsible

Kids and Responsibility 

Children learn self-responsibility when they eat and sleep, when to dress up and play, when you help in simple tasks and work within set limits.

What to expect?

· Children who are given responsibility for tasks that are able to do a greater sense of belonging to the family, and they also developed the belief that a significant contribution in life.

· What to do for children to succeed in carrying out their responsibilities:

- Housework, objectives and expectations must be appropriate to their age and stage of development. Children can not perform tasks that are not yet ready.

- To successfully perform a task, children need help and constant reminder. Most children will not be able to complete successfully perform everyday tasks such as dressing, without reminders or supervision until his 10thyear.

- Tasks to be feasible, and a simplified task of 'steps' and clearly explained, so that children can more easily perceive and learn.

· Children will be more difficult to learn responsibility when:

- The daily tasks and duties meet, because they fear punishment or injury.

- When they are not allowed to bear the consequences of his actions.

- When they are often 'rescued' from unpleasant situations, even when it really is not necessary.

· Young children are not always able to understand what responsibility means and why they are going to work and clean at home so important to adults.

• Children spend much time in learning personal responsibilities like going to the toilet, dressing, eating, sleeping and washing hands. Do not expect to have plenty of time for housework.

· Children who easily lose concentration may need more help in learning to fulfill its duties.

· Children will often be happy to assist in tasks that they are new and unfamiliar, but very easy to lose interest if repeated several times.

· Giving children the real tasks that can help families to encourage them to do even more, but they can give a strong sense of recognition and ability.

· Learning is the responsibility of living with the process by which parents learn about children. Children have limited awareness of responsibility and are just beginning to learn the skills that are necessary in order for one to become a responsible person.

Meaning of accountability

Talk with your child about the meaning of responsibility. Teaching responsibility is to learn:

· Think about the feelings of others and just treat people

· Tell the truth, even when it means to admit a mistake

· Do the right thing, even if it means not to be in their or not to get what they want

· Develop self-control

· Appreciate themselves and their achievements, to be content with their own behavior, what they can do and achieve new things

Children learn best from experience. So you need to find ways in everyday life to show them how to look and responsibilities enable them to practice it.

Let the child feel that it is important

Given the child's upbringing increase the level of responsibility and decision making. Starting from the second year, give your child small tasks that can be filled, and gradually add the responsibilities of each year in parallel with djetovim acquiring new skills. Help your child develop their own reasons for expecting help and do not link the performance of duties with the money. If you pay each child a task that is done, you will learn to value it to meet its obligations can be measured only by money and that good work is always rewarded. Instead, tell your child that is an important person in the family and can count on his help and responsibility. If you start while the child is a little more, until he realizes that there is a difference between work and play, but will be within the family system of segregation of duties.

Introduction to skills

Meet the child with the skills they need to become a responsible person. This process will take several years.Start early, show the child what it looks like a responsible adult by yourself to practice responsibility and allow the child to just practice the skills developed.

To become a responsible person, your child must learn these skills:

· Decision-making. Offer your child a simple choice: "Do you want to play in the sandbox or on the playground?"Then, as the child grows up, talk about the possibilities and consequences of choice.

· Self-motivation. Small children respond to praise and because they want to fulfill their responsibilities.

· Skill memory liability (limited in young children).

· The skill of responsible debate on the situation.

Acceptance of responsibility

Teach your child to accept responsibility for their actions, good and bad. Discuss what you think you're doing well and you think you still need to fix it. When you make a mistake, admit it and tell your child what you can do to make things better. Encourage your child to accept praise for things well made, and to accept responsibility for errors. Show him that you believe in his ability to accept responsibility.

Learning from mistakes

Help your child to learn from their mistakes. Part of learning about responsibility and teach acceptance errors and retries. Help your child to create an environment of respect and learning environment rather than criticism and shame.

Simple tasks

Set tasks that a child can achieve with regard to their age and stage of development. Avoid giving your child responsibilities you have less than two and a half years. The children were then too busy developmental tasks - how to use your body, how to walk and how things work successfully. Predškolarcima give small tasks, such as jackets hanging on a hanger, toy store, returning a box of crayons or some other simple but useful tasks.

Finishing the job

A child can help in several ways to do the job properly:

· Praise your child regardless of whether the work is done well or not. Compliments are the best way to learn responsibility - more than a bribe or reward for a job well done.

· Help your child make the job properly. More likely to do if you are with him.

· Enter the fun. Let the music or tell funny stories about the toys.

· Share responsibility in smaller tasks. This child will not be so hard and it will facilitate a decision with which to start. "We first pick up the crayons on the floor."

· Establish a routine, for example. storing toys in the box before dinner.

· Try to team work when you need to do something in a hurry. Ask all the family to participate and see how it can be done in five minutes or less.

· Ask your child to help do something specific, rather than accusations that he made a mess.

· Sometimes it is sufficient only one word, eg. 'Jacket' that the child would know that it should be put into place.

Toys

When a child becomes a toy store 'too much', think about how to reduce the number of toys:

· For birthdays and holidays poklanjajte his small toys.

· Remove any old toys, and after some time they return. It will then see them in the 'new toy', but also remove the toys with which no longer plays.

· Some toys offer your child only in 'special circumstances' or when you want to have control over the number of toys with which to play.

· Consider the introduction of rules: "If later you can not save, do not play with them." If a child refuses to save the game after a toy or is exhausted, remove them for a while.

Money

Help your child understand that money. Talk about the different responsibilities that are associated with money: work for money, sharing with the poor people, and prudent spending. When you think that the child understand that money is for buying things and people work to earn it, and when you think you are ready to take responsibility for debt and money, maybe it's time to start giving him pocket money. Introduction to the responsible allocation of money to be paid to a child later in life.

Your little messenger

Ask your child to help convey the message to another person. The child shall enjoy in the delivery of the things you need. Allow him to convey a message to someone in another room, or ask to pick up dirty laundry and deliver it to you in the room where the washing machine. When you thank him, he will feel good and important that can help.

Do not spoil

Avoid bribing children forced to behave responsibly. If a child will only do what must be done or because they will be rewarded, they may not learn responsible behavior. One must learn to properly handle the pleasures that will later feel, not because it subsequently expects payments. Moderate reward the child's good behavior, but not if your child requires.

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