Some fun ways to spend time with your kids are to enjoy being at home together doing house chores.

Now if you're listening to me, I said that's a fun thing.

Maybe it's like pulling teeth.

I mean, there have been seasons where it's like, is that literally the best you can do?

Oh my goodness.

There's so many opportunities for you to show up as a

parent when you're doing house chores with your child. I'm John Fuller joined by a smiling,

Dr. Danny Werta, who has a story, I'm sure. Danny, you lead the parenting team. You know this

stuff. I'm sure that you included your kids in chores. Did it ever go south or was it just like so rewarding

you smile now? Like, yeah, that worked out so well. No, it didn't always work out well. I mean,

it definitely was an imperfect thing, but it was fun. And what I learned early on was that I needed

to slow down and because there are moments where I was going, man, okay, this is going to really slow everything

down and I was in a hurry.

And those moments didn't go so well.

And I could see my kids weren't excited to work with me again the next time.

So in that learning, I slowed it all down, made sure I carved out some extra time to have

them participate in more of the grown-up chore pieces of, let's say, gardening or landscaping.

When we landscaped our house, our kids were young, they wanted to spend time together,

but I needed to get that done. So it was fun to try to figure out.

What can I, what can I have my son do?

What can he help me with?

What can I put him on that won't cause me an extra hour or two of work?

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