House rules for Tweens & Teens
Just wondering what your rules are in your homes. My SS14 & DD11 are returning from their BM & BD respectively and I am burdened with the task of drawing up the rules for the house for 2011 (don't get me wrong, we always had rules..just that they were swept under the carpet last year by a SM/BM who gave up (me) and a FH that challenged them being applicable to goldenboy (SS14)):
So mine so far are (based on issues we had with SS14 last year):
1. Do not lie
2. Do not steal
3. Speak respectfully to adults and to each other
4. Do your chores EVERYDAY
5. No watching TV until your homework & chores are done
6. No wasting of food or water
7. No messing up the family areas (Lounge etc)
8. Dirty dishes to be rinsed & put into the dishwasher.
9. Bath/Shower EVERY DAY - no excuses accepted.
10. No food in the bedrooms.
I would appreciate any input.
Regards
MG
Someone posted a link to this
Someone posted a link to this the other day.... not rules per se, but still good.
Here is the "Children's Bill of Rights" as per John Rosemond:
1. Because it is the most character-building, two-letter word in the English language, children have the right to hear their parents say "No" at least three times a day.
2. Children have the right to find out early in their lives that their parents don't exist to make them happy, but to offer them the opportunity to learn the skills they will need to eventually make themselves happy.
3. Children have a right to scream all they want over the decisions their parents make, albeit their parents have the right to confine said screaming to certain areas of their homes.
4. Children have the right to find out early that their parents care deeply for them but don't give a hoot what their children think about them at any given moment in time.
5. Because it is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, children have the right to hear their parents say "Because I said so" on a regular and frequent basis.
6. Because it is the most character-building activity a child can engage in, children have the right to share significantly in the doing of household chores.
7. Every child has the right to discover early in life that he isn't the center of the universe (or his family or his parents' lives), that he isn't a big fish in a small pond, and that he isn't the Second Coming, so as to prevent him from becoming an insufferable brat.
8. Children have the right to learn to be grateful for what they receive, therefore, they have the right to receive all of what they truly need and very little of what they simply want.
9. Children have the right to learn early in their lives that obedience to legitimate authority is not optional, that there are consequences for disobedience, and that said consequences are memorable and, therefore, persuasive.
10. Every child has the right to parents who love him/her enough to make sure he/she enjoys all of the above rights.