FLIP! 📋 Don't Make Learning Success Skills a Chore for Your Kids

Are your kids excited to do their chores or finish their school assignments?

As a kid I wasn't excited about doing chores, as a parent my kids weren't and as a grand parent I don't notice my grand kids are either. Yet, we tell kids if they finish their chores they can do something they're really excited about.

Maybe it's time to FLIP! our thinking and the order of events. What if we help our kids finish something they're excited about and, in the process, learn core entrepreneurship, growth mindset, and project management skills they can use to do their chores or finish their school assignments.

When it comes to doing chores you usually have a task or project you have to complete. Once you've mastered the steps involved it should become easier and faster to do that chore. Sometimes you have to learn a new skill to get the chore done.

Finishing school assignments can very similar to doing chores. The steps involved may not change but completing a particular assignment may require new skills or subject matter can become more difficult.

Doing a Big Idea FLIP! is like doing chores or finishing school assignments with one major, significant difference, motivation.

The missing "motivation" comes from the fact that for most kids chores and school assignments  don't involve your kids interests, passions, and ideas. If a chore or school assignment does match up with what they're into at the moment, it typically adds energy to there effort.

So, the sequence for teaching your kids entrepreneurship, growth mindset and project management skill sets is FLIP! first and Chores / School assignments next.

I'm not suggesting there's no bridge necessary for your kids to apply what they've learned doing a FLIP! into getting Chores done and School Assignments completed. I have observed for both kids and adults that what they've learned in the pursuit something they really care about carries over into all aspects and areas of their life.

Compare this list of steps kids need to use (learn) to get their "chores" done to any of the 32 FLIP! skills taught in the Entrepreneurship, Growth Mindset, Project Manage sections of the three steps of the FLIP! Process. Here's a short list to review for "chores" related activities:

• Road Map
• Happy People
• Ask, Listen
• Decisions
• Challenges
• Persistence
• Scheduling
• Leadership
• Organization

I don't know if doing chores using FLIP! Skills will put a smile on your kids face, but it's certainly helpful to find a happier way to equip your kids to succeed.