Faith Filled Family Magazine July 2016 | Page 42

How Do You Teach Your Children Good Work Ethics? By Ben Stilner Parenting is perhaps one of the most difficult and challenging of all tasks that a person will undertake in their lives. Those who are in the midst of parenting or who are now in a vantage point to see the fruits of their labor, know this all too well. Many reasons account for the struggle, but perhaps one of the greatest contributors is our lack of being intentional about those factors that matter most. Although we know that breakfast isn’t enjoyed unless someone prepares it, beds don’t get made unless someone makes them, and houses do not get cleaned unless s o m e o n e cleans it, we seem to forget that children do not learn unless someone teaches them! For some of us, the words of Dickens strike a familiar tune, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of