when the children decided to help with the cleaning

Should children help their parents? Many parents believe that it is not worth burdening children with household duties. They think that housework will take away from children a carefree childhood, which is given only once. Often parents who come to a psychologist for a consultation believe that children have enough schoolwork and besides that they do not need anything from their children. Nevertheless, as a family psychologist, the author of this note Olga Zeitlin believes that it is much more important that when children help their parents by performing household duties, they will feel necessary in the family, able to make their own contribution to family well-being and therefore be its full members. At the consultation, she helps parents understand that by teaching children responsibility for household chores, we develop their social interest and prepare them so that they are not afraid of responsibility outside the home. Children who help their parents and have a range of household responsibilities usually do better at school because they interact better with teachers. Without such training, children become consumers and in the future they only want to receive something from other people. They just sit at home and wait for someone to come and give them what they want. Sometimes such children get the feeling that they are something of themselves only when someone serves them.