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to blame the teacher, the test, or the class for them, they will feel overburdened and again,
their poor performance. incompetent, because they won’t be able to
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Teaching Responsibility
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them.
Children must be taught not only to act re-
need to parent responsibly. A child who lives sponsibly, but also to accept responsibility for
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middos for responsible living. A child whose -

we live in will grow up with the same sense of their parents.
responsibility. A chronic latecomer should not be given late
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each other. Kol Yisroel areivim zeh lazeh.

chessed ,are inchessed - school deems appropriate. In many cases, a
volved in their children’s schools, and contrib-
ute to tzedakah, they model to their children needs to propel her out of bed in the morn-
ing.
a hallmark of responsibility. One mother told me that she tells her chil-
dren to prepare their clothing for school in
the evening, so that she can see if anyone is
teach children to disregard authority, and do
what is the easiest and most convenient, re- -
chine. On one occasion, her teenage daughter
on society at large. forgot to prepare her clothes - and found that
Another way to teach responsibility is to give there was no clean blouse in the closet. She
children age-appropriate chores. Here, par- had no choice but to pull one out of the ham-
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burdening children and challenging them. If
all choices and decisions are made by adults,
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