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How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

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233 points Xcelerate | 1 comments | 04 Sep 18 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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CitizenTekk ◴[04 Sep 18 07:42 UTC] No.17907295[source]▶
It all defines and will reflect on how parents teach them. It's not a child labor or something if you teach a child to do some chores. Teach them while you can as they will carry it thru them in their whole life as they also will become a parent when time comes. It is their privilege not yours(parent). Childredn in Japan are thought to do chores it's not some technique or something, It's to teach them how to be responsible https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/stor...
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1. aplc0r ◴[04 Sep 18 16:26 UTC] No.17910219[source]▶
Based on what I've been told by relatives who grew up in Japan, students are also required to help clean the classrooms and other school facilities from grade school through high school. This is probably wishful thinking, but if we had this in the U.S., we may have fewer adults who think they can act like pigs in shared spaces.

I remember a kid in middle school who dropped his lunch tray, spilling food all over a table and the floor. He got up and went back to the line to get more food. I asked him why he didn't try to clean it up or at least tell someone. He told me "That is what the janitors are for". For some reason this really stuck with me, and I think about it whenever I see someone purposely littering.