These days, there are pros and cons on the question whether household tasks should be done by children. Some people might think that household tasks is not for children, because they have short of ability of arrangement. However, I firmly believed that children has an opportunity to do chores at their home because of aspect of having responsibility and building skills.
Evidently, children can be able to have responsibility by doing household tasks. Giving the chores to children helps them live better lives. Suppose that parents assign works like polishing father's shoes or arranging toys to their children. When they leave the room messy or not polish their father's shoes, father would be late for work because of no clean shoes for him to put. Then, they can be in an embarrassed situation, and they would feel that how their work was an very important. This experience make children do their best whatever to do and feel responsible themselves. Furthermore, these children would be grown up great adults who have a sense of responsibility. Moreover, they can control their lives. In this sense, the duties, even small chores, can make children responsible.
Obviously, Doing household tasks is likely to make children feel a sense of belonging. This emotion comes from the feeling of children's being helpful to family members. As a matter of fact, these days, it is common that parents have a dual income. Most of them feel stress because of household chores, when they come home. In this situation, if children help their parents with dishing washes or cleaning rooms, they can get a praise from their parents. Then they would be proud of it as one of the family members and feel involved in their family. Children can keep a good relationship with their parents at home. According to a research conducted by Lee ju mi, one of the famous educational psychologists, an efficient way for children to feel a sense of belonging is to give an particular duty such as taking care of their siblings or arranging their toys to them. Dr. Lee points out that the sense of belonging may a key role that a child would be grown up a nice person.
All the household tasks should not be done by children. However, I think that the importance of doing household tasks seems to be overlooked. This is because children can develop their responsibility and skills.
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