{"id":8991,"date":"2012-04-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/28\/teaching-responsibility"},"modified":"2012-04-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T12:00:00","slug":"teaching-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/28\/teaching-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a great time time last Thursday having a little practical lesson on responsibility. After the girls woke up from their naps, we took advantage of that fresh recharging of energy to work on a house chore together. This is one house chore that usually gets overlooked because, quite honestly, I just don’t think actively about it.<\/p>\n

So since utter delight can be found in nearly every activity when you are 3 and nearly 2 years old, we all dropped to our knees and enjoyed us some wonderful kitchen floor ice skating.<\/p>\n

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The girls primarily just played, slopping suds about. But they did have some very nice scrubbing moments\u00a0 as well while I washed up the floor. They enjoyed the opportunity to “help Mommy” and take responsibility for caring for the house with me. We talked about how everyone uses the kitchen and enjoys eating the food that is in the kitchen, therefore it’s nice for everyone to help in keeping it clean. Such joy and delight came from the accomplishment of the shining floor with a united cheer and we all had a very fun time with some water\/bubble play. Rachael provided a soundtrack to our cleaning (she’s quite the songwriter) and Abi even took on the liberty of washing her legs, my little over-achiever. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So with a shine, thus ends another fun lesson in responsibility and being family helpers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a great time time last Thursday having a little practical lesson on responsibility. After the girls woke up from their naps, we took advantage of that fresh recharging of energy to work on a house chore together. This is one house chore that usually gets overlooked because, quite honestly, I just don’t think… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2,63,37,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-a-mom","category-enjoying-life","category-the-new-middle-child","category-the-oldest","category-willing-hands","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}