It's never too early to start teaching your kids the importance of being responsible. Our friends at Fatherly are here to share the one major key to raising your toddler to take charge and be responsible at a young age.
What are some successful ways parents can teach their kids responsibility?
We have a 22-month-old, and we have a simple rule.
Everything we do for you, you have to help.
We let her struggle and will only help if she's unable to complete a task. And if we do lend a hand, we'd guide and assist her instead of doing the task for her. When she does complete a task, we give her praise aplenty and give her progressively harder stuff to do next time around. The goal is to get her to the point where she's able to complete entire sets of tasks independently.
It's been working well so far.