At Westmont we strive to
support and develop responsible independent individuals. Dr. Maria Montessori said, “ Never help a
child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
There's a reason your
children are prone to tantrums when you ask them to wash the dishes — chores
are not fun. After all, who wants to spend 20
minutes scrubbing crusted-on tomato sauce instead of watching Frozen for the millionth time? But instead of
avoiding the tears and just washing everything yourself, you should hold your
ground. Why? It turns out kids who do chores are more successful adults.
"By making them do
chores — taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry — they realize I have
to do the work of life in order to be part of life," Julie Lythcott-Haims,
former dean of freshmen at Stanford University and author of How to Raise an Adult told Tech Insider. Lythcott-Haims also spoke at a TED Talks
Live event about her research, which she based on a Harvard Grant Study, which
happens to be the longest-running longitudinal study ever conducted.
"If kids aren't
doing the dishes, it means someone else is doing that for them,"
Lythcott-Haims said during her TED Talk. "And so they're absolved of not
only the work, but of learning that work has to be done and that each one of us
must contribute for the betterment of the whole." She also believes that
kids who grow up doing chores will be better employees who have the skills to
collaborate with coworkers, will be more empathetic towards others and can take
on tasks independently.
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