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401 Ways to Get Your Kids to Work at Home: Household tested and proven effective! Techniques, tips, tricks, and strategies on how to get your kids to ... become self-reliant, responsible adults

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I am already utilizing several ideas from this book and I haven't finished reading it yet! The concept of teaching practical life skills to one's children to develop their self-confidence as well as helpfulness is great. My children are responding very well to new habit formation. They are also looking forward to getting their own recipe book with foods they can make themselves without Mom hanging around.

This is a great book. I've been hording my neighbor's dog-eared copy for a few years now. Every time I look at it, I find something other tool to try. I've finally decided that it is time to buy my own copy and let my neighbor lend hers to someone else who could use it.

This book had lots of great information about the things we NEED to teach our kids before they venture out into the unknown. With 5 kids ranging in age from 18 years to 10 months, everyone is in a different place and it has been fun to watch the younger kids learn from the older kids. We have some goals in place for each kid and they are eager to start learning lots of "grown up" things!

There are some good ideas in this book. The 8:00 O'Clock Pick-Up described on pages 127-129 is my favorite. But these authors desperately needed a good editor and they didn't have one. There is way too much fluff, way too much shallow psychologizing, too many unfocused anecdotes, etc. The book is full of l---o---n---g paragraphs that ramble and stumble through way too many different thoughts. If bad writing irritates you, this is not the book for you. But if you'd really like to extract the good ideas without wading through the mush, look for the lists, the stuff in boxes, etc. You can skim through those items, get the gist of the book and the best ideas, and skip the rest.

I borrowed this book from the library and felt lost when I had to give it back. So I want to get one for myself to keep and use whenever I need to reference back to it. Great ideas that we will definitely be using around here.

This is a handy little book to have on hand. I have had several problems getting my children involved in the housekeeping and this book had several ideas that I could implement easily. I review this book whenever I need it. Nice to have on hand.

I'd have loved this book if I hadn't received it AFTER reading 2 Alfie Kohn books. Sorry. It's behavior and control based. It's all about how to control your kids into doing housework. It isn't my style anymore.

This is the only baby shower gift I will give anymore. Childhood is too precious and serious a time to waste on dumb stuff. Parents need to realize they are raising tomorrows adults and this book is one of the best guides to do just that! I found this book over 25 years ago and my oldest daughter used to complain when she saw me reading it. My neice used to hide her moms copy!! It's easy to read and follow and impliment and I would encourage anyone to find a copy, new or used and give it as a gift for any new parent.

This book is way too outdated for our hectic, electronic, urban life. I don't recommend it, it doesn't take into consideration that we don't live in a farm and that our kids watch television and surf the web too. I have to say that I only read it briefly and decided it didn't apply to me.