How to Teach Responsibility | eHow.com
When children are young it is always easy to overlook teaching responsibility. Most parents feel that because the kids are still not quite ready, they must not be subjected to or bombarded with "too much responsibility and discipline". I have seen children grew-up lacking in responsibility . Unable to do things for themselves. Always waiting for someone to do even the simplest tasks for them instead. Children who have difficulty in making decisions, sometimes resulting to none. But good or bad, issues need to be resolved. Growing up my parents made it a point to teach me how to handle responsibility. There were no chalk talk. It was required, demanded if not downright commanded. Learning the hard way. That is how I call it. I was often asked to do tasks too old for me. Aside from the weekend routine of housework, my mother mandated that I iron loads of my father's military uniforms. When I perform routine marketing errands, I was required to bring home the right go