By: Ron Pereira
www.catholicreply.com
www.leansixsigmaacademy.com
My 4 year old, Kileigh, has this little game she plays right before I turn the lights off at bedtime. She always says, “Daddy, don’t forget your chores.” My chores started out as “tell the dogs not to bark and wake me up.” Then they evolved to “pressing buttons on the computer.” Now that her imagination is kicking into high gear she asks me to print things out for her and leave them in her room.
So for the past few weeks I have copied and pasted the Gospel for the day into a Word document along with a picture that supports the Gospel (Google images is the best). It all fits on one page. I print it out and when she is sleeping I put the paper on the floor by her door.
She has now taken all of my “chores” and with mom’s help has gotten a three ringed binder and places them in it. She loves my chores and I must admit I love doing them.
I am traveling this week for work so I had to do my chores ahead of time and mom is putting them by her door in my place. But Kileigh knows who did the hard work!
Little acts like this make all the difference to our kids men. If you have ideas of things you do please do share!
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Well last night I got the honor of singing my two year old the "oof-oof song" (how much is that puppy in the window)My wife is a much better singer and enjoys singing to the kids, but last night when I kissed him good night I told him I would get mom to sing his song. He adamantly let me know he wanted me to sing it. What an honor.
Well, after dinner around our place is clean-up-time for all 3 of us. My wife sings that annoying clean up song from the Barney CD (which I am proud to say we don't own) but my 2-yr-old has christened it dee-a-bah a few months back. Now she can say "clean up time" but she still says dee-a-bah because we laugh when she does it. Anyway, she and mommy clean up toys, and I clean up the dishes. She sometimes comes in to check on me or to grab a toy that made it into the kitchen. She knows my chore is washing the dishes…I clean up too.