Kids Hate Work??

They want to play, watch TV, spent time with friends, and do anything but work. Most kids don't instinctively clean their rooms, make their beds, pick up toys, or wash their dishes. We seem to constantly remind our kids to clean their rooms. We probally drive them crazy with it, but after reading some very good imformative books on raising children, it is something bigger than just having a clean room.

Successful people have lerned to work hard. They realize that anything worthwhile in life requires a certain amount of effort, determination, and work. If you do nothing you usally get nothing. These are important lessons that every child needs to learn. The bottom line is that hard work is a good thing. There is joy and satisfaction to be gained when we put forth strong, serious effort toward a goal. Few things feel better than finishing a task and sitting back to enjoy a job well done. In the world today we want things the easy way. The other day, I could not find the remote to the TV, I knew what channel I wanted to watch, but instead of walking over to the TV and turning it on and going to the channel I knew I wanted, I looked for the remote for almost 5 minutes, and misse the part of the news that I wanted to watch. Is that not crazy or what! The world teaches laziness, entitlement, and disappointment. Hard work has many advantages:

• It builds a can-do attitude
• It teaches responsibility
• It develops skills
• It overcomes Laziness
• It accomplishes tasks
• It enriches character
• It teaches us to appreciate effort
• It keeps us from trouble
• It assists others
• It strengthens self-esteem

It's funny, a couple of months ago, our daughter was wanting to spend the night with someone. Before she asked us if she could, she cleaned her room, went into the kitchen put up the dishes in the dish washer put the dirty dishes in the dish washer and started it. We knew that something was up, we knew she was wanting something. Guess what when she came around to asking, we rewarded her and said yes. There is reward for working hard. As parents we should encourage our children to do chores around the house, it's good for them and then reward them for it.