Faith Filled Family Magazine December 2016 | Page 74

possible. Afterwards you’ll have
more peace in the home and everyone can focus on productive
pursuits. That is, after all, what
we want for our families, isn’t it?
(Sidebar) If the Method Doesn’t
Work
Okay, you’ve given it a few
weeks, you’ve been handing
out the chores, but the behavior

hasn’t changed. See if any of the
following might apply:

that will bless the household, but
which they DO NOT LIKE to do.

1. The chores are too easy. (How
can you tell? The kids don’t balk
or make a face when they pull
one out and read it. They don’t
drag their feet to do it, or complain.) If this is the case, write out
new ones. You know your kids.
Give them work that is real work,

2. You’ve been inconsistent
about using the jar. If this is the
case, get militant about it. You
want your family life to be peaceful and serene—not filled with
strife. As soon as your children
realize you mean business, they
will react accordingly.
3. One child gets chores a lot
more than the other. Does one
child seem more innocent? Conversely, does one get all the work
while the other goes scot free?
I used to say to my (protestingof-innocence- daughter) that “it
takes two to tango.” Meaning, It
takes two to have an argument.
Give chores to both, no matter
who started it, and soon they’ll
be equally happy to forgo the
squabble.
Linore Rose Burkard was raised
in New York, where she graduated from the City University
with a magna cum laude degree
in English Literature. She wrote
a trilogy of genuine regency romances for the Christian market
before there were any regencies for the Christian market.
Published with Harvest House,
her books opened up the genre
for the CBA. She also writes YA
Suspense/Apocalyptic fiction as
L.R. Burkard. Married with five
children, she still home-schools
her youngest daughter, preferably with coffee in one hand and
an iPad in the other. Her latest
PULSE EFFEX SERIES, takes
readers into a landscape where
“faith and grit must triumph in a
world gone dark.” One reviewer
says it’s a “chilling possible future for America.”