Familyhood Education Foundation
(A nonprofit public service organization)

The Great Parenting Tool!

In the last century there have been thousands and thousands of books and articles written for parents telling them what they must do to be successful parents. Many of those books even tell parents how to raise their kids.

It is certainly important to know what to do and how to do something but we need much more than mere knowledge and skills to accomplish a task. All these books together with all their fine advice offer no tools to get the job done.

Raising Kids Without Tools? Impossible!

If you were given all the ingredients to make chicken soup with the condition that you could use nothing as a tool, could you do it? You're given everything¡­raw; the chicken, carrots, rice, onions, water and all the spices. But you can't use a knife or a pot, the kitchen sink or a table. You can't even use the stove or fire because all of these are tools of some kind. As people started getting hungry and angry and complaining, it would probably not be long before you lost patients and yelled out your frustrations over the stupidity of demanding someone do a job without any tools. It seems we use tools for everything¡­except for raising our kids. Do parents need tools to raise their kids?

Two hundred years ago parents had a great tool to raise kids with; it was called a farm. There were cows to milk in the wee hours of the morning and again at night. There were fields to tend, pigs to slop, animals to feed, eggs to gather, and a thousand other chores to do. Kids learned to get up early and to work hard; they learned to appreciate what they had. Most kids were too busy to get into much trouble; they respected their parents and were usually obedient. The now outdated family farm was a wonderful tool for raising kids. Rather than nagging and finding fault with their children modern parents would be wise to employ effective tools in raising their own children.

The point is easy to see: there are thousands of ideas about parenting written in thousands of books. In fact, in Familyhood's own parenting program we find dozens of wonderful ideas and principles. But all those wonderful ideas lie dormant in the books and the heads of parents until a tool is devised to implement them. A tool can put all those ideas and principles into practice. Familyhood provides the greatest tool ever created since the family farm became history. It is called ¡®KUDOS! FOR KIDS'. Kudos! was designed as a tool to be used by both parents and kids. When parents start the Kudos system they automatically begin using correct parenting principles. Kids become motivated to work and are soon developing values and skills. The result of all this is that as a little time passes the family becomes orderly and peaceful and the children cheerful and cooperative.

Kudos is the tool that parents use to drive the nails and pay the crew. Kudos is the tool that rewards the child for good attitude, cooperation and accomplishment. Kudos outlines the work and keeps track of things. People love to play Kudos because it is exciting and plays like a game for the whole family. Kudos stops the fighting and bickering. Kudos (not mom or dad) rewards for proper behavior and punishes for wrong choices. Kudos eliminates the need for nagging or criticizing. Mom and dad become the rewarders in the home; no longer the punishers. Kids know the rules and push the game because that is the only way they can earn privileges or the money they must have to buy many of their own necessities. Kudos is a great tool!