Hello and welcome to the Emmas for Mama podcast I'm your host Abby Halbersat

happy wife mama to 10 Bible believing Christian and on's show, I want to tackle a topic that I get asked about on a very regular basis.

And that is the idea of chores, tasks that are appropriate for children to contribute to in your home,

allowances, what should be paid for, what should be expected, and how to establish a routine in your home that gives your kids a taste of responsibility

without overloading them with things that they really aren't ready to bear.

And I'm not going to say that I have all of the answers by any stretch.

However, I want to share with you some of what we are doing in our home that has worked well for us and it's been a lot of trial and error and it's been a lot of doing things that didn't work as well that we learned from.

And so I hope that that will help you kind of leap over some hurdles if you are in the younger years or maybe even just tighten up a ship that you feel like is sinking at this point in the tour department

and you don't know how to save it

other than just daily bailing water out

if we're just gonna keep that metaphor going

and it's not working for you.

So I will share what we do,

I will share some ideas that I've gotten from some other really wise mamas that I've adapted into what we do and then I'm going to start with a scripture which is always my goal is to come back to what the Bible has to say and I'll tell you why I chose this

scripture once I've read it. Galatian 6 5 through 7 says for each will bear his own load let the one who has taught the word share all good things

But the one who teaches do not be deceived God is not mocked for whatever one sows that he will also reap. So there's a lot of things that the Bible has to say

about sewing and reaping. There's a lot that the Bible has to say about the talents and responsibilities and just privileges as well as heavy things that were handed by the Lord in our lives to teach us both responsibility and also

reliance on the Lord to mature us and to grow us up in practical things and in our

faith in Christ and to make us aware of how important it is that we actually

contribute meaningfully, even from an early age, to the concept of work that must be done around the house,

to the concept of bearing one another's burdens, to the concept of something that we use as our family's motto, which is being a blessing.

So whenever we go out, we like to say that we're going to be a blessing and that's what

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