Our kids are really pretty good at helping pick their things up with some encouragement. I've been wondering about how to help them (and myself for that matter) have a better understanding of doing some chores without being told to do them. I was reading this post from A Daily Scoop today, she has such great insight into many things in life. This post was just what had been on my mind recently.

I realize that the kids are probably too young to really have them understand too many things. I am learning that they are learning from many things that we do, from what they see, hear, from friends, us and others. I am working at trying to be better at teaching by example (a good one, at least more often than not) rather than by words. So here we go onto a new adventure in teaching. We will be making adjustments to her suggestions to fit our families needs.