Are You Teaching Your Children to Take Care of the Car? | Episode 566

My wife had a routine whenever she would pull into a gas station.

The children were small.

They, the oldest one might have been 11 or 12, maybe 13.

And whenever she would pull into the gas station, she would never get out of the, the driver's seat.

It was like a pit stop, and all the doors would open up.

The children would get out, and one would pump the gas, and one would check the tire.

One, uh, one would check the oil.

And it was a training module for them to learn to tend to important things.

And, uh, it wasn't specifically about car care.

It was about training.

So the car is just one w- situation where your children, even though they're quite small, they can learn to do something.

They can scrub the windshield.

They can pump the gas.

They can do any number of things.

And as they get older and, and can reach into things carefully, they can check the oil.

And it's all a matter of training their mindset that they have to take care of things, and that they are responsible, and that they are big.

So our children always want to do the things that we're doing, and so they watch us.

Don't overlook those situations where you can pass off a job to them, and you train them.

And before long, they're doing it all the time, and you forget to do it.

And then they grow up and move away.

But it reminds me of a saying that Zig Ziglar, a, a business leader and motivational speaker, used to say about training employees.

And it talks about training.

It's the same thing about training children.

It says, "The thing worse than training your employees and losing them," because people want to hire away well-trained employees, "The thing worse than, uh, hiring, uh, training your employees and losing them is not training them and keeping them." And that goes for children, too.

If you don't train them, they will likely be more and more dependent on you.