[gerberadaisy]

Originally Posted by momma2girls

My 8 year old can be this way. Honestly I have no idea if this is considered gentle parenting or not but the only thing that worked with her was taking away her access to 90% of her toys. Took her about a week but she has a very different attitude now.

As to chores I did lists with them for a long time and my almost 11 year old is asking for one again since she is having a hard time keeping track of the things she does. We have daily chores and Saturday chores so they don’t have to think of the once a week things daily.

My 6 year old helps walk dishes after meal time to a sibling that is loading them in the dishwasher. She also helps with toy clean up 3 times a day. We clean up before lunch, dinner, and bed. (With homeschooling though it’s often a 2 min job for what little they get out while taking turns playing with the toddler during school.) She also puts her dirty clothes in the hamper but I don’t require that she hang her clean things up since that is hard due to her height. The only other things I can think of that she does on a daily basis is pick up her stuffed animals and make sure her books are put away.

We homeschool as well. he is also an only child. Problem is, he plays 8-10 hours out of the hours he is awake & he will take out toys to get to what he really wants but doesn't want to put anything back. Its an all day battle. We did just put a pile of toys up for a bit. I am hoping that will help organizing the ones that are out better. We had many of his things in individual boxes or bins (balls, cars, planks, magformers, etc) but dad wasnt enforcing that & i gave up for a while. We are going to get back to that & hopefully it will make that one chore less of a hassle.