Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement [Kindle Edition] Author: Kay Wills Wyma | Language: English | ISBN:
B007WKFM7C | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Is Your Home Out of Order?
Do your kids expect clean folded clothes to magically appear in their drawers? Do they roll their eyes when you suggest they clean the bathroom? By racing in to make their lives easy, have you unintentionally reinforced your children’s belief that the world revolves around them?
Dismayed at the attitude of entitlement that had crept into her home, Kay Wyma got some attitude of her own. Cleaning House is her account of a year-long campaign to introduce her five kids to basic life skills and the ways meaningful work can increase earned self-confidence and concern for others.
With irresistible humor and refreshing insights, Kay candidly details the ups and downs of equipping her kids for such tasks as making beds, refinishing a deck chair, and working together. The changes that take place in her household will inspire you to launch your own campaign to dislodge your kids from the center of their universe.
“If you want your children to be more responsible, more self-assured, and more empathetic, Cleaning House is for you.”
—Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family
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- File Size: 1351 KB
- Print Length: 290 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0307730670
- Publisher: WaterBrook Press (May 8, 2012)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007WKFM7C
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,483 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Do your kids tend to think things just magically happen at home? Do they think "oh Mom will do it" or "It's Mom's job since she stays home"? Do you do everything for them and wonder why they do not help themselves unless it involves video games or the fun things they choose to do?
Then this is the book for you!! Kay Wills Wyma wrote Cleaning House: A Mom's 12-month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement after realizing one day that she was failing to teach her children to appreciate the finer things in life and instead to expect them. The dawning of this revelation came the day her teenage son informed her he wanted a Porshe for his 16th birthday. She came to realize he had no clue what a car like that cost or how hard one had to work to achieve owning something in that price range, so she set out to change her children's ideals of the world, one challenge at a time.
Kay began by providing her children a jar filled with 31 one dollar bills and a task that had to be completed every day. If the task wasn't completed and properly, as she saw fit, the child would lose a dollar for that day. At the end of the month, whatever was left in the jar was able to be spent as the child wished and hopefully they would learn a valuable skill over the course of the month as they worked to keep every dollar the jar held.
She began this experiment with the simple tasks of making the bed and picking up their rooms every day. Each month they had to continue with the already learned tasks and learn to do new ones on top of them, from how to cook and clean the kitchen, to laundry and cleaning the bathroom including the toilet and bathtub. Each child had a different day of the week to complete some tasks while other tasks were required to be done daily.
I bought this for an easy beach read (which it was--finished in one day), and for encouragement, inspiration and direction in motivating my children to do for themselves without expecting others to make things happen for them. I found little tidbits here and there, but especially loved the chapter where her November focused on service to others.
What I took from this book:
"Meaningful Work" boosts self-esteem (don't you feel good after completing a job well done?)
We often underestimate our children's abilities. We often do the work that they are capable of doing because we are more experienced and we can do it quicker, more effeciently, and completely. When we do it for them, we not only take away their opportunity to learn and practice (so they can become effecient like us), we are also telling them with our actions that they can't do it, so we'll do it for them.
That I can slowly incorporate new tasks for my children, to help them make work a habit, not a chore.
Often, after children practice taking the initiative to do the work needed around them, they will be focused on others and not themselves...perhaps we aren't entitled as much as we are selfish/self-centered
Personal quibbles:
For myself, some of the beginning chapters (which the author admits to) are a bit unnecessary for some. Teach them to make their bed...we are thankfully past that. But, I understand that this may be helpful to some. And, it does point out that perhaps many of us began teaching our children the basic skills, but somewhere in our busy lives we started doing it for them because we did it better, faster or more consistently. Sometimes we parents do things out of love or because it is easier than telling them to do it 10 times.
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