viernes, 22 de enero de 2016

Childhood chores are a predictor of success

Childhood chores are a predictor of success







Family Edge looks at news and trends affecting the family in the light of human dignity. Our focus is the inspiring, creative, humorous, annoying, ridiculous, and dangerous ideas in the evening news. Send tips and brainwaves to the editor, Tamara Rajakariar, at tamara.rajakariar@ mercatornet.com - See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/childhood-chores-are-a-predictor-of-success/17487#sthash.FnTmSpue.dpuf





FRIDAY, 22 JANUARY 2016

Childhood chores are a predictor of success
comment 1 | print |       


I think it’s pretty common for parents to think that their kids’ success in life will be guaranteed by things like learning their A-B-Cs at age one, enrolling them in a host of extracurricular activities and making sure they have all the latest gadgets. But according to the research (as pointed out in this WSJ article) it all starts with something much simpler – getting them to help with chores around the house.

Giving your kids chores doesn’t make you into a slave driver or an evil parent – it’s setting your kids up with the skills that contribute to a happy and fulfilled life. Studies have found that children who began helping with chores at the ages of three or four years were more likely to later have good family and friend relationships, achieve success academically and in their careers, and to be self-sufficient. And even though it seems like chores means less time for extracurricular activities, it helps them to work harder and better in these various facets of their lives.

Doing chores is a proven predictor for a sense of mastery, self-reliance, responsibility, empathy and respect for others — and the sooner that the kids start, the better. Apart from the obvious of learning how to look after a home, here are some of the skills that kids would develop from doing their chores:

Work ethic: If they have to help out around the house, kids know that the good life isn’t handed to them on a silver platter. They learn that work is required to achieve anything in life and they’ll realise that they can’t take what they have for granted. And if they sit on the couch watching Netflix while their mum cleans around them and hands them food…well, won’t real life be a shock!

Teamwork: Chores give kids a sense of being part of something bigger: they have something to contribute to the team – aka the family. And there is such a sense of fulfilment in this! It’ll be sure to benefit their teamwork skills in study, work and family situations in the future.

Respect and care for others: Chores aren’t selfish: they benefit the whole family – be it from a trimmed lawn that everyone can find aesthetically pleasing, a well-prepared meal for all to enjoy, or a clean sitting room to relax in together. This encourages kids to think beyond themselves to how they can look after those around them; encouraging them to grow in generosity instead of using that mind-space to focus on themselves. It also helps them to be more grateful when others do something for them!

Responsibility: By giving a child a specific chore, he or she realises that the family is depending on them to get something  particular done; something which affects everyone’s quality of life. Kids learn on a subconscious level that their actions have an impact on others, as does the absence of their promised actions. And a sense of responsibility towards others makes for a good citizen!

Order: With a chore to do, a child learns to prioritise and organise their time. They may not have a lengthy to-do list, but fitting in chores will help them to fight laziness, and to learn to put chores before relaxation.

That’s only a few – what other benefits do you think come from kids doing their chores?
- See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/childhood-chores-are-a-predictor-of-success/17487#sthash.FnTmSpue.dpuf



MercatorNet: Accidental births and deliberate deaths







Accidental births and deliberate deaths

If you want to see the future of euthanasia in Canada, study the history of abortion.
Johanne Brownrigg | Jan 22 2016 | comment 
    






On the very day that Canada’s Parliament convened a Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying, the National Post, one of our national newspapers, ran an article on “accidental” births.

Accidental births are not unexpected conceptions that have led to babies; they are abortions that have failed. The term sounds innocent though, almost lovely. But on the cusp of our government writing a law to enact a 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision  opening up physician assisted death in our country, it was the irony that compelled me to write.

In 1969, abortion was de-criminalized in Canada. The procedure was restricted to only cases of rape, incest and saving a mother’s life. The woman’s case was to be reviewed by a panel of three physicians.

In 1988 the Morgentaler decision struck down a small section of our criminal code which left Canada without a law on abortion, but not without the means of drafting one. This is exactly what the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) told Parliament to do at the time. However the Morgentaler decision had the effect of shutting down rational discussion of fetal rights, father’s rights, grandparent rights, unborn victim of crime rights, unborn female rights and so on. It left us with abortion on demand for any reason right up to birth.

It did something else too. It left us without the boundaries necessary to recognize the humanity even of newborns.

A little more than 20 years later, in separate court cases in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta, judges used abortion as a reason not to convict mothers of infanticide. If an unborn baby can be aborted right up until birth without punishing the mother, why not right after?

Then in 2013 while in Parliament, Conservative MPs Maurice Vellacott, Leon Benoit and Wladyslaw Lizon, called on the RCMP to investigate cases of feticide when it was uncovered that from 2000 to 2009, there had been 491 “accidental” births. These botched abortions compelled the killing of the newborns. Though these killings were “breaches of the Criminal Code”, the request was ignored. The Criminal Code was too.

Increased prenatal screening at 18 to 20 weeks was reported in the National Post piece as the catalyst for more late-term abortions. Abortion has become the primary remedy for the unborn child with lethal abnormalities. Noticeably absent from the discussion by the physicians in the article however, is perinatal hospice care. Though perinatal care does not change the outcome, it does change the process. As reported, some of the parents were loath to have their child injected in utero, so their child was born and eventually died. No distinction is made regarding the different decisions made by these parents, as if there were no difference. All this has necessitated a discussion around palliative care for babies who’ve failed to die after an abortion, and babies who die after birth from a lethal abnormality.

A federal committee examining physician assisted dying which convened this week has four months to write legislation to make Canadian medical practice and law compatible with the SCC’s seismic relocation of cultural values and legal precedent.

This process isn’t really about suicide. Suicide was decriminalized long ago in Canada, as a compassionate response to despair. What the SCC is allowing is different. We will now allow someone to kill someone else.

Just as abortion proponents began with the most extreme cases as a reason for that extreme solution, proponents of physician assisted death offer the most extreme cases as well. Of course physician-assisted death will be rare. Of course it will only occur when requested. Of course it is for cases of extreme suffering. Of course it will occur just as planned. Everything always does. Until we find out that it doesn’t.

But by then, something in the culture has died.

Johanne Brownrigg is the lobbyist for the Campaign Life Coalition. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, she blogs for ProWomanProLife. Follow @johanbrownrigg
- See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/accidental-births-and-deliberate-deaths/17490#sthash.RrTx5S2K.dpuf





MercatorNet

We cover some very weighty topics below, but my favourite today is Tamara El-Rahi's praise of childhood chores. They are "a proven predictor for a sense of mastery, self-reliance, responsibility, empathy and respect for others — and the sooner that the kids start, the better," she writes.  And what's more, her advice comes with an ironclad guarantee that you won't be a slave driver or an evil parent. Check it out! 





Michael Cook 

Editor 

MERCATORNET



Upsetting the balance of nature



Michael Cook | FEATURES | 22 January 2016
A British report on the irrelevance of "naturalness" could have far-reaching consequences.



Read more...
Earthquake prediction goes commercial — sort of



Karl D. Stephan | FEATURES | 22 January 2016
With so many lives at stake, what are the ethics?



Read more...
Accidental births and deliberate deaths



Johanne Brownrigg | FEATURES | 22 January 2016
If you want to see the future of euthanasia in Canada, study the history of abortion.



Read more...
Christian persecution in 2015



Marcus Roberts | DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY | 22 January 2016
Worldwide it's getting worse.



Read more...
Childhood chores are a predictor of success



Tamara El-Rahi | FAMILY EDGE | 22 January 2016
Guess it's simpler than you thought!



Read more...
“People should live peacefully together”



Michael Cook | FEATURES | 21 January 2016
How a Muslim teacher protected Christians from terrorists and paid the ultimate price.



Read more...

MERCATORNET | New Media Foundation 



Suite 12A, Level 2, 5 George Street, North Strathfied NSW 2137, Australia 

Designed by elleston

New Media Foundation | Suite 12A, Level 2, 5 George St | North Strathfield NSW 2137 | AUSTRALIA | +61 2 8005 8605 

No hay comentarios:

Publicar un comentario