Jim Fay shares an observance of his three decades in education. He says the most responsible kids were the ones in an inner-city school who lived in federally funded housing projects. They got up in the morning without assistance and got to school in time for breakfast without assistance. They knew if they got there, they got breakfast; if they didn't, they missed it. They never missed a bus when it was going someplace they wanted to go. The most irresponsible kids were upper-middle-class kids in a suburban school district. The first day of school a thousand kids arrived in eighteen different buses. Half of these kids ran straight to the playground for some pre-bell frolic. The other half raced directly to the principal's office to phone their folks for forgotten school materials, coats and lunches. Fay says that responsible behavior has a direct correlation to the number of decisions children are forced to make. The more they make, the more responsible they become.
How can you engineer your kids daily activities toward making responsible decisions?
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