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Kids and Housework: Episode 202

Sarah Rosensweet
About this episode

In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, is a conversation with parenting coach and author Lori Sugarman-Li. We discuss how to teach the next generation to care for the home by focusing on making care work visible, discussing shared family values, and respectfully getting children involved in care tasks.

We talk about:

  • 5:00 What is Fair Play?

  • 1:00 Getting kids involved in caring for the home

  • 14:32 Elevating the work of giving care and having men participating in that

  • 18:22 How what is visible is valued

  • 19:22 The Peaceful Parenting approach to raising helpful kids

  • 24:000 Starting from a place of being a Family Team with shared values

  • 29:43 What happens when family members have different values

  • 32:30 Explaining the “why” behind chores

  • 39:00 When kids say “no” to chores

 

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