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How to foster independence in kids

( bbs.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-08-21 08:09

Grb (Expat in China)

My daughter is 5½-years-old and makes her own bed, feeds herself, takes a shower by herself, helps clean helps her mom in the kitchen and she enjoys doing these things. I have seen many kids here in China much older than her still being fed by their parents and running wild in restaurants.

How to foster independence in kids

Lily Cherry, 8, cleans her bathroom as her mother, Andrea, supervises at their home in Kingwood, Texas. Cherry has passed on her childhood practice of doing chores to her own children believing it gives them a sense of family responsibility.

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