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Child Development
How to Raise Helpful Children

Marjorie Rhodes Ph.D. on June 5, 2019

How can you encourage children to help? Asking them simply "to help," rather than to "be helpers," leads children to keep trying to do their part when things get tough.

How can you encourage children to help? Asking them simply "to help," rather than to "be helpers," leads children to keep trying to do their part when things get tough.