Weekend Challenge: Teach your Kids a New Life Skill. And Q & A on Sibling Bullying. {Aloha Friday Episode 21}
Happy Aloha Friday!
After our last Podcast Episode (on raising boys who will be ready to launch one day!) we’ve been talking more about teaching our boys the LIFE SKILLS they need to be independent one day. These life skills can (and should!) begin when boys are young, and will build on each other and add up to make a responsible young man one day. (the goal!!)
Listeners have been asking me for ideas on what kids should do at various ages, so I decided to share one of the resources I offer to BOY MOM Book readers: A list of LIFE SKILLS which should be learned at different stages of a boy’s life. (find download at the bottom of this page!)
This Aloha Friday Episode offers a weekend challenge for you: Choose one life skill to work on with your son/children this weekend! Whether you teach them to make their bed, tie their shoes, clean the toilet, or change a tire, I encourage you to find something to teach them this weekend! (or sometime soon!)
This episode also includes my response to a reader who emailed asking for advice on SIBLING BULLYING. I think the perspective and principles I offer will be an encouragement to you whether your children bicker a little, or a LOT… 🙂
You can find the Boy Mom Podcast on all of the podcast platforms…here are just a few of them:
iTunes (now called Apple Podcasts)
Or you can listen right here! 🙂
Feel free to leave a comment below, sharing about a life skill you are working on with your kids!
Hope you can grab the free download here and print it out to walk through with kids of all ages.
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Have a great weekend ahead! Big hugs…
Hello! I am new to your website and blog but I was able to read your book, Boy Mom. I loved it so much that I am going back through it with my husband! Anyway, I was wondering if you could weigh in on greed in kids. How it happens, why it happens, what we can do to reconcile the damage we as parents have inevitably caused and especially, how to convey the importance of tithing to God. I am finding it hard to talk to my 5 year old boy about giving 10 percent without him complaining of wanting it all and not giving. It’s shocking to me to hear him say the words “I don’t want to give!” Especially since my heart orientation, love language, what will you, is service and giving. We don’t give an allowance or anything yet. Maybe that would help? Any help on where to start would be great! Thank you for all you do!
My 12 year old son is interested in the upcoming presidential election, so I’ve been teaching him how to research the candidates instead of just consuming the advertising from each candidate.
So good Amy! I love this. Keep it up — we need our kids to be critical thinkers! 🙂 Such a good example. Much aloha-