Kids who do household work are successful!

How does your child respond when you ask them to clean the table after dinner or when you ask them to put the laundry clothes in the machine? If you face rebuttal and tantrums, because they feel chores are boring, you need to learn to hold your ground. You ask, why? Well, because kids who do household chores are said to turn into successful adults.
At a TED talk, author of How To Raise An Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims shared data from her research, which she claims is the longest running longitudinal study. She shares that making kids do chores, they realise doing this work is an essential part of life.

When parents do their part of work, kids tend to internalise that it is okay for others to do their work and in the process they fail to learn how important it is and how everyone should contribute to chores for 'betterment of the whole'. She feels that kids who do household chores grow up to be better employees who can better collaborate with their team and will end up being empathetic towards others. And they don't fear taking on tasks independently.

So don’t make the mistake of over parenting. The latest style of parenting is not allowing kids to grow and flourish.

We spend a lot of time focusing on parents who are not involved enough in the lives of their kids, their upbringing. While it is right, on the other end of the spectrum, there is a lot of damage being done by parents who micromanage and believe that kids can’t be successful unless the parent is protecting and preventing him at every turn.

Every parent has such tendencies but kids do not need this obsessive steering. They should be allowed to take up challenges and deal with them.

Keep them safe and sound. Keep them well fed. Teach them important life lessons. That’s your primary responsibility.