Building character in kids: self-discipline, work ethic, responsibility, respect, etc

[Anonymous]

Chores and tight limits on indulgences like screen time. My now teen kids have had chores since then were 6 or 7 and I almost never let them skip them. (Emptying dishwasher every day, folding everyone’s laundry.) Also I pretty strict about screen time I think it build character to not let your mind be lazy for hours on need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chores and tight limits on indulgences like screen time. My now teen kids have had chores since then were 6 or 7 and I almost never let them skip them. (Emptying dishwasher every day, folding everyone’s laundry.) Also I pretty strict about screen time I think it build character to not let your mind be lazy for hours on need.

My kids started with chores essentially once they could walk - putting their shoes away when they came in from outside, helping put their laundry away, clearing their own dish/cup/utensils after every meal, putting away toys, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get them involved in a church or religious organization from an early age. (And I mean involved; not just showing up for a few services a year. Make youth group, Vacation Bible School, Sunday school, etc an expectation.

They will meet friends and other families there that have these same values, and they are reinforced by other adults. You will start to reap the benefits of this when they hit middle school/ high school age.

Those values being... thinking everyone who’s not a god-fearing Christian is going to hell?