\u201cWork ethic\u201d is defined as the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.\u00a0 It is a belief in the moral value, benefit and importance of work and its inherent ability to strengthen character.<\/p>\n
Someone with a good work ethic is assumed to believe there is merit in doing hard work, having a \u2018natural\u2019 feeling of satisfaction or enrichment from accomplishing things, rather than from the reward one does or does not get for it.\u00a0 A person with a strong work ethic can be relied upon to always consistently do their best in every detail of a project.\u00a0 A person with strong work ethic is self-driven (self-motivated) to accomplish tasks properly (through self-discipline) for the intrinsic value of the work itself.\u00a0 They take responsibility to ensure that tasks are done right in the proper order and timing.<\/p>\n
Your son needs to know and appreciate the value of work.\u00a0 No one who succeeds in life does so without working hard.\u00a0 Additionally, it is healthy on many levels for males to work.\u00a0 God created the desire inside each man to want to provide for his wife and children.\u00a0 He feels great contentment and satisfaction when he is able to provide for them adequately.\u00a0 This is a natural instinct and not vanity.\u00a0 It is implanted in him by God for a divine purpose\u2014to assure that families will be adequately cared for.\u00a0 Men who do not work (either intentionally or unintentionally) suffer because of it.\u00a0 They tend to have lower self-esteem and higher incidents of psychological problems, such as depression and anxiety.\u00a0 In addition, his wife and children have less respect for him.\u00a0 Women tend to have stronger emotional attachments to men when they feel provided for and protected.\u00a0 Lack of protection diminishes femininity.<\/p>\n
So how do we raise young men who are eager to make a difference in the world\u2014who can be depended upon to provide for their wives and children?\u00a0 We can start by giving them chores from an early age.\u00a0 Give him chores as part of his role in the family.\u00a0 You might give him a weekly allowance to teach him how to budget money, but he should do some chores with no compensation just because he\u2019s part of the family and they need to be done.\u00a0 They should be age appropriate, but don\u2019t be afraid to make them difficult and even physically challenging.\u00a0 You can always find other physical work that needs to be done around the home to pay him for if you want to keep his household chores and allowance separate.\u00a0 I had a wonderful decade or so where I didn\u2019t have to mow the lawn after I taught my son to cut the grass at age 11.<\/p>\n
Teach him how<\/em> to work\u2014he\u2019s going to have to work for most of his life.\u00a0 The earlier you teach him the principles that help him be successful at work, the easier his life will be.\u00a0 I\u2019d consider making your teenage son work outside the home.\u00a0 One of the major conflicts I hear from parents is whether to allow their children to experience positive extracurricular activities in school or to make them go to work.\u00a0 We experienced the same dilemma.\u00a0 For instance we chose to allow our son to be in band, play sports, be in Boy Scouts, attend youth group at church, and be involved in student government at school because they were healthy, wholesome activities that kept him out of trouble.\u00a0 We purposely told him as long as he got good grades he did not have to work outside the home.\u00a0 And so we provided a car for transportation along with insurance.\u00a0 A major mistake in hindsight\u2014one we didn\u2019t make with our second child.\u00a0 Those extra-curricular activities are important, but he probably didn\u2019t need to do all of them.\u00a0 In hindsight, he would have been better served to have to work for a boss and learned what working for minimum wage is like so that when he went into the world he would have appreciated the value of an education and been better prepared to take care of himself.\u00a0 Additionally, being forced to work and pay for his own car and insurance would have been an excellent lesson to teach him the value of those items.\u00a0 Our daughter did and was much the better for it.<\/p>\n Many of the problems parents experience with their sons (of all ages) can be solved through work. Give your sons chores, make him get a part-time job, and keep him physically active. You\u2019ll have fewer problems with his attitude, with getting into trouble, and with sex if you can keep him mentally and physically tired.\u00a0 The military discovered many years ago that they could eliminate fighting, horseplay, and sexual preoccupation in boot camp by keeping hundreds of teenagers and young men so physically exhausted that they fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow in the barracks at night.<\/p>\n Boys also develop confidence and competency (which define their self-esteem) by accomplishing masculine chores that increase their skills and abilities. They learn this best under the guidance of a father or other older male. Masculine chores include activities like building things, yard work, pouring cement, repairing a car, fixing a home, painting a house, repairing a roof, plumbing, or any other number of things that are best accomplished by his own two hands, his muscular physique, and the sweat of his brow.<\/p>\n Males are physical beings. We process information and emotions more easily when we move, we develop self-esteem through accomplishments, and we channel aggression into healthy physical activities. Without the chores and hard work that used to be necessary in order to survive, young males are turning more toward sedentary activities that keep them from becoming powerful physically, which in turn also contributes to their emotional and mental health.<\/p>\n Teach your son to work and everyone will be happier.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWork ethic\u201d is defined as the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.\u00a0 It is a belief in the moral value, benefit and importance of work and its inherent ability to strengthen character. Someone with a good work ethic is assumed to believe there is merit in doing hard work, having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,42,5,13,28,7,30,201,14,43,41],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-boys","tag-character","tag-childhood","tag-fathers","tag-males","tag-men","tag-mentoring","tag-parenting","tag-sons","tag-teach","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"\n