Do you know the true good reasons for involving a child in the organisation of family life?

Do you know the positive effects of involving a child in the organisation of family life?

With an average of 150 minutes per adult per day devoted to household chores and just 50 minutes of parenting time, there is definitely room for improvement in co-organisation within the family!

And we will spare you the male/female breakdown that could well lead to an interesting discussion between members of the couple. Anyway!

Encouraging autonomy in your children and delegating a little better – now that’s certainly a good idea from the parents’ point of view! But what about the children?

We decided to put the question to a specialist: Claude Berthon, a child and teenager psychologist : what are the positive effects of involving child in the organisation of family life?

Let’sCo: What are the positive aspects of involving a child in the organisation of family life?

Claude Berthon: Involving a child in the organisation of family life constitutes an excellent way for your child to build confidence in his or her abilities and aptitudes. He can discover his or her own tastes and talents whether they be culinary, artistic or manual, whether they involve tidying, cleaning, shopping, logistics or social and relationship intelligence.

Conferring tasks helps a child to grow, to become more independent, to progressively overcome his or her eventual difficulties or limitations. For example, being in charge of some shopping or administrative tasks can help a teenager to overcome shyness on a social level; anticipating the weekly schedule of family time can help a child to improve the planning and organisation of his or her school work; asking a young child to set the table can help to develop motor and practical skills, etc…

Offering personal responsibility and requesting individual willingness fosters, among other things, your child’s sense of his or her separate and unique position within the family, and this can be significantly reassuring in terms of social and emotional needs.

Finally, when asked to take part in the smooth running of family life, children, fundamentally used to receiving from their parents everything that is necessary for daily life from the earliest age, now open up to the pleasure of giving up some of their own time, energy and talents for the collective good.

They move away from self-perception to pay attention to others and discover a taste for effort, fundamental conditions for thriving in the future in an emotional, social and professional context.

Let’sCo: more confidence, more autonomy, more trust…. It looks like it is the last day of my cleaning the dish!