November 4th, 2009 | 
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401 Ways to Get Your Kids to Work at Home is an essential book for busy parents who would like to get their kids to share the housework and who would like a systematic program to ensure that their kids know all the basic living skills by the time they leave home at age eighteen. Among the topics it covers are:-How (and when) to assign and teach specific jobs-How to give positive feedback, incentives, rewards (or punishment)-How to teach your child to organize his or… More >>
This book is way too outdated for our hectic, electronic, urban life.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.
Rating: 1 5/ 5
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.
Rating: 4 5/ 5
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.
Rating: 5 5/ 5
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.
Rating: 2 5/ 5
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!
Rating: 5 5/ 5