Everyday household skills include doing laundry, shopping, paying bills, and cleaning are important for a child to learn. They teach a child to be independent. When a child leaves your home with these skills, he/she will feel more self-confidence and you will worry less.
-- Next time you go to the grocery store, take your child with you. (If its easier to only take one child make sure you make it known everyone will get a turn to the grocery store.) Walk around the store together showing them how to find the price, how to pick a good fruit, where to find the ingredients listed on an item, etc. If you use coupons, like we do, tell your child why they are so important when checking out.
--Get the kids involved in sorting laundry into light, dark, and white piles. Show them how to work the washer and dryer and encourage them to always help you start their laundry.
--Have your child be a kitchen helper when making a dinner that needs ingredients to me mixed. As a rule in my house when the cooking starts since I have 2 little ones, everyone needs to scoot out of the kitchen. Our kitchen is gated off 24/7, but I do tell Cali in to help me prepare dinner :)
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