How Can I Get My Kids to Work? - MBFLP 284 - Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network

It’s one of the most common questions we get – “How can I get my kids to work?” Surveys find that a large number of families don’t expect their kids to do chores – and many that do, have a running battle over getting them done cheerfully. This episode, we’re talking about a balanced, Biblical attitude toward our children’s work (as well as our own), and what we can do to encourage them in it!

References

“Sparing chores spoils children and their future selves, study says” – Ami Albernaz, Boston Globe (12/8/15)

“Is Quiet Quitting Real?” – Jim Harter, Gallup (9/6/22)

Thomas Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy

Scripture Referenced

Children playing in God’s peaceable kingdom – Isaiah 11:8-9

Children playing in the New Jerusalem – Zechariah 8:5

Jesus speaking of the games of children in the marketplace – Matthew 11:16-17, Luke 7:31-32

It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth – Lamentations 3:27

Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord ... – Colossians 3:22-23

In all labor there is profit … – Proverbs 14:23

Do all things without complaining and disputing – Philippians 2:14