It’s All About Teaching the Kids Responsibility
Having eight children in the house is a terrific incentive to teach them about responsibility from a very early age. The parents started to assign them tasks when they were about four and were happy to announce that they rarely forget to pull their dishes into the dishwasher without being told to do so. Kenny told NBC News that he and his wife “made it less of a chore and more of an honor or something — a privilege to do. ‘Hey, you can be a big boy or girl if you do this.”
THE MCCAUGHEY SEPTUPLETS AT HOME (Photo by Ambassador/Sygma/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
The parents believed that it was imperative to start teaching the young ones responsibilities and make them proud of themselves for completing their chores. Their strategy was based on every young child’s eagerness to please. When the septuplets were five, their parents’ main worry was how to strike the correct balance between demanding obedience and encouraging independence.