The Children You Want with the Kids You Have by Marie Ricks

By: Lin Ryals on 9:02:00 AM

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Genre: Parenting

Author: Marie has been teaching organization since 1986. Since she has created many programs and written a few books on organization and teaching kids. She currently lives in UT and manages a website -- houseoforder.com.

Synopsis: This book is designed to teach your children to work, obey and be independent.

Review: This book provided some excellent plans on how to teach your children to do chores. I loved those. There is even a list of chores that are appropriate for certain ages. I loved it and learned that my children can be doing more and my house has been staying so much cleaner since I discovered this. There are some things that bugged me a little about the book. Mainly the section on obedience. She says to call your children and if they obey the first time then you give them a treat. Gradually, you get farther and farther away from the child until they learn to come the first time. This just reminded me so much of dog training so it was a little hard to think of doing it with my kids. Once I got over that part and just pretended it wasn't in there, there was a lot of excellent information in the book and ways to help my home run a little more smoothly. At the end are some sections on sharing, being kind, and being grateful... there are others but I can't remember right now. Anyways, these chapters just felt like fillers, as if she was trying to get a certain number of pages or something. These were all very logical and takes common sense to figure out how to do. There was some really great information in this book with some great ideas on teaching children to do their chores. There are also a lot of strange ideas that I just had to take with a grain of salt and move on. I think the good parts were totally worth skipping over the not so good parts though.

Rating: *** Three Stars