Sep 04 2008
Teaching kids responsibility: Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project
Do you remember Liberty Mutual’s commercials based on the concept of “pay-it-forward” – someone who sees another person participating in an act of kindness and is inspired to do the same for a stranger? Not surprisingly, Liberty Mutual received an overwhelming reaction from viewers. In response they created an entire website called The Responsibility Project. It’s a wonderful resource for parents to help them talk with their kids about personal responsibility in a meaningful way.
It’s also a social networking site. You can create a profile, save your favorite films and blog posts in one place, and share your own responsibility story.
My responsibility story
Teaching children responsibility is tough especially when it doesn’t come naturally to your child.
I’ll never forget the time that Nathan came back visiting from the neighborhood school playground with his grandmother. He couldn’t wait to show me the treasure that he found. Was it a cool rock or a pretty wild flower? No, it was a three-ring binder filled with dozen of pages manga-style cartoons that some grade schooler had patiently drawn. Nathan brought it home thinking that he could keep it.
“Nathan, that belongs to someone else, someone who spent a lot of time drawing those cartoons,” I explained. “It’s not something to keep. It doesn’t belong to you. If you don’t return it, they’ll be very sad that they lost it.”
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