I'm Grateful to God for Little Helpers

As my little ones grow bigger, it's amazing to see these 'babies' become helpful. They watch daddy and mommy around the house and they want to help.

Sometimes it's easier to not have them help

I mean they get in the way and they make messes.

It's not always done well, but it does get done

My youngest likes to help the most, even though she's the least capable right now. Her favorite task is to unload the dishwasher... whether the dishes are clean or not!

Her second favorite it setting the table, to the best of her ability.

It's not really helping

It's tempting sometimes to focus only on the outcome and the finished job and prevent our children from 'helping'. Because it's not really helping at all! The challenge for us it to view is differently - that even though it does not help or make everything run well.

But sometimes the value of having them help is not getting the job done faster, but teaching our children how to do things that are useful for the family is the true value.

It doesn't matter if it's really helping or not

Someday, all this extra work for daddy and mommy will pay off, as these 'big messes' that we have to fix and clean up, will someday become useful and efficient jobs that our children will enjoy.

I'm watching my daughter do the dishes with WAAAAY too much dish-soap. Daddy's gotta buy that, you know. There's suds everywhere. My oldest is showing me her "steemit pie"

Training Children is a Blessing

Every day is another opportunity to train our children - they get plenty of play time, but even play time is learning time.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

We try our best as parents to keep ourselves in a good attitude, so we can be a good example for our children. Sometimes that's the greatest challenge.

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