Responsibility

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Our value for this month is responsibility.

What is Responsibility?
• setting the direction for you future and success
• being dependable so people know they can count on you
• keeping one’s word and agreements
• meeting one’s commitments
• doing something to the best of one’s ability
• being accountable for one’s behavior
• accepting credit when you do things right and acknowledging mistakes
• being a contributing member of one’s family, community and society
Being responsible is a key to children’s success both in school and in the larger world when they grow up.
However, one common problem parents experience nowadays is over-indulgence and teaching responsibility
Ways that parents over-indulge their children:
1. Giving Too Many Things
Giving them too many material things or too many activities without the expectation that they will fulfill obligations. This would clearly interfere with a child becoming responsible, either about his commitments or for his things.
2. Doing Too Much
Doing things for children that they are able to do for themselves.This results in them not learning skills of everyday living and how to care for themselves.
This also occurs when parents do not require them to be contributing members of the family. The child is not expected to be responsible, is not given the opportunity to do so and does not learn the skills and attitudes that will lead to responsibility.
3. Not Expecting Enough
Not expecting enough or demanding enough of children. This has to do with parents not requiring their children to meet their obligations or the parents’ expectations, or to face the consequences of their actions. These parents do not hold their children accountable for their behavior, they make excuses for them, and ‘bail’ them out when they get in trouble or slack off.
By carrying out the “Executive” role, parents can avoid the pitfalls of over-indulgence, help their children to feel good about themselves and learn to be responsible. This includes such things as:
• setting limits
• saying no
• holding children accountable
• establishing and enforcing rules
• setting expectations
• encouraging children to give back in some way
• assigning chores and making sure they get done
• setting and following through with consequences[:zh]

Our value for this month is responsibility.

What is Responsibility?
• setting the direction for you future and success
• being dependable so people know they can count on you
• keeping one’s word and agreements
• meeting one’s commitments
• doing something to the best of one’s ability
• being accountable for one’s behavior
• accepting credit when you do things right and acknowledging mistakes
• being a contributing member of one’s family, community and society
Being responsible is a key to children’s success both in school and in the larger world when they grow up.
However, one common problem parents experience nowadays is over-indulgence and teaching responsibility
Ways that parents over-indulge their children:
1. Giving Too Many Things
Giving them too many material things or too many activities without the expectation that they will fulfill obligations. This would clearly interfere with a child becoming responsible, either about his commitments or for his things.
2. Doing Too Much
Doing things for children that they are able to do for themselves.This results in them not learning skills of everyday living and how to care for themselves.
This also occurs when parents do not require them to be contributing members of the family. The child is not expected to be responsible, is not given the opportunity to do so and does not learn the skills and attitudes that will lead to responsibility.
3. Not Expecting Enough
Not expecting enough or demanding enough of children. This has to do with parents not requiring their children to meet their obligations or the parents’ expectations, or to face the consequences of their actions. These parents do not hold their children accountable for their behavior, they make excuses for them, and ‘bail’ them out when they get in trouble or slack off.
By carrying out the “Executive” role, parents can avoid the pitfalls of over-indulgence, help their children to feel good about themselves and learn to be responsible. This includes such things as:
• setting limits
• saying no
• holding children accountable
• establishing and enforcing rules
• setting expectations
• encouraging children to give back in some way
• assigning chores and making sure they get done
• setting and following through with consequences

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Our value for this month is responsibility.

What is Responsibility?
• setting the direction for you future and success
• being dependable so people know they can count on you
• keeping one’s word and agreements
• meeting one’s commitments
• doing something to the best of one’s ability
• being accountable for one’s behavior
• accepting credit when you do things right and acknowledging mistakes
• being a contributing member of one’s family, community and society
Being responsible is a key to children’s success both in school and in the larger world when they grow up.
However, one common problem parents experience nowadays is over-indulgence and teaching responsibility
Ways that parents over-indulge their children:
1. Giving Too Many Things
Giving them too many material things or too many activities without the expectation that they will fulfill obligations. This would clearly interfere with a child becoming responsible, either about his commitments or for his things.
2. Doing Too Much
Doing things for children that they are able to do for themselves.This results in them not learning skills of everyday living and how to care for themselves.
This also occurs when parents do not require them to be contributing members of the family. The child is not expected to be responsible, is not given the opportunity to do so and does not learn the skills and attitudes that will lead to responsibility.
3. Not Expecting Enough
Not expecting enough or demanding enough of children. This has to do with parents not requiring their children to meet their obligations or the parents’ expectations, or to face the consequences of their actions. These parents do not hold their children accountable for their behavior, they make excuses for them, and ‘bail’ them out when they get in trouble or slack off.
By carrying out the “Executive” role, parents can avoid the pitfalls of over-indulgence, help their children to feel good about themselves and learn to be responsible. This includes such things as:
• setting limits
• saying no
• holding children accountable
• establishing and enforcing rules
• setting expectations
• encouraging children to give back in some way
• assigning chores and making sure they get done
• setting and following through with consequences

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