Balancing short-term chores and long-term goals

Every parent knows the feeling: you need the dishes done, the toys picked up, or the laundry folded… and your child is nowhere near motivated to help. What if the key to raising genuinely responsible kids isn’t about enforcing compliance, but about understanding what actually drives motivation from the inside out? In this mini-episode, host Stacy Bellward chats with Katie Wetsell, pediatric nurse turned Connected Families Certified Parent Coach, to explore the brain science and research behind growing responsibility in children. Learn some practical, grace-filled tools you can start using today!

• Motivation can be complicated for all of us, because we are human
• Learn how building kids up in the short term can help with long-term goals of raising capable, responsible adults 
• Learn about the three pillars of self-directed motivation

• The Power of Questions Online Course
• The Entitlement Fix Online Course
• Blog Post – Want to Know Your Child’s Strengths?
• Blog Post – Help! How On Earth Do I Get My Kids to Do Chores?

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