Parents On The Blog

As a parent, teaching children the skill of organization is not just one less cleaning job on the household chore checklist. Some experts consider teaching children organizational skills as fundamental as instructing them about morals, values and other personal signposts. In fact, organization skills taught during childhood are likely to follow the child through adolescence [...]

My parents had just come home from a farmer’s market and noticed an extra bag of peaches.
“You have to take these back,” my mom told my dad.  “WE HAVE KIDS.  We can’t keep something we didn’t pay for.”
My mother was putting her finger on an essential truth:  Kids absorb the values they see adults putting [...]