Setting chores for "tricky" kids and teens - an important detail that sometimes gets forgotten
/One of the ongoing challenging tasks for parents is to help children and young people to get their jobs done. Trying to help children and teens follow through on mundane tasks like cleaning rooms, unpacking bags, putting their toys and doing assigned chores.
This is hard enough for parents with kids who have easy going personalities and few life demands - but when you are trying to help a child who struggles with worry/frustration management, attention problems and other life challenges - getting them to do their chores is extremely hard work.
Parents in our clinics talk about the immense frustration that comes with reminding, nagging, yelling at young people in order to get them to do these simple things - and how they end up just doing it themselves.
There's no easy solution for helping young people get things done, but in my experience there is ONE detail that can potentially make a big difference. If we get this detail right, then it is significantly more likely that children/young people will do their jobs, and if we don't - it's much less likely this will happen.
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