Responsibility

If you want your children to grow up to be responsible adults, you need to begin teaching them responsibility while they're young. Set rules for them and make sure they follow through. This will stand them in good stead as the enter their adult years.

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Episode Transcript

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If we want our children to become responsible adults, we
must teach them when they are young.

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Doctor Gary Chapman with a love language minute.

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Requiring a child to make his bed or vacuum her floor.
Our first steps in developing responsibility. And what of good manners?
Corporate America is now hiring etiquette trainers because employees don't
know the simple rules of courtesy. If as parents, we
believe that please and thank you are better than gimme

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and yuck, then we have rules that teach such manners.
Rules must be clearly explained to children. Unspoken rules are
unfair rules. In most cases, parents are older than children,
so they have the responsibility to make rules that will
protect and guide the child.

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Doctor Gary Chapman is the author of The Five Love Languages.
For more, visit five Love Languages. Com.